Comments on: End of another era…

By: Wade Olson

Wade Olson — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:26:05 +0000

This is such a touching blog entry. It should remind us all of what’s most important during this holiday season – friends and family. Thank you for sharing – you family is in my thoughts, and it looks like the same with many others in the OSS community.

By: Segedunum

Segedunum — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:56:43 +0000

Thankfully, I don’t have a history of cancer in my family (apart from lung cancer, which is smoking related) but I have known people who have been lost through the disease and I never cease to be amazed how quickly someone can be lost. Someone with cancer can be as right as rain, be diagnosed, go downhill, look OK for a while and then just go very quickly. It’s a major shock to your system.

You had a real, proper mother there. That’s the level of detail they go into!

By: Angie

Angie — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:30:03 +0000

It’s hard to lose a mother, at any time of life. Your Mom sounds like the kind of woman I really looked up to – THAT’S organization – and so thoughtful. Wish I could have met her… I’ll be thinking of you.

By: sinanjj

sinanjj — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:09:02 +0000

I’m sorry for your loss. She is a good person.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:37:57 +0000

she left Dad a notebook listing all the household chores that he ought to do on a daily, weekly, monthly, annual, bi-annual and occasional basis after she was gone, right down to specifying the correct washing machine cycles for the bedclothes, and the appropriate shades of paint to use on the outside of the house!

Your mum sounds fantastic. I hope your dad sticks to that chore chart, or he might start having dreams where she comes to him and tells him to get busy and do it properly this time!

I’m so sorry for your loss. She really does sound like a terrific lady.

By: Jaime Hemmett

Jaime Hemmett — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:49:16 +0000

Hi Calum,

I was sorry to hear about your mum from Julie you have been in our thoughts since we heard. Thankyou for sharing this story, it really is wonderful how organised she was and how comforted by her efforts
you’ve felt since she passed away.

I hope we can get together with you and Julie for a drink sometime before the end of the year. (We’re around after Dec 15th).

Take care,

Jaime.

By: Guanglin Du

Guanglin Du — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 07:42:30 +0000

Calum, your mum must have been a kind and elegant lady. Take good care of yourself. You remid me of my own mum, who is in good health. And I DO miss her now.

By: Mikael Hallendal

Mikael Hallendal — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:59:57 +0000

My sincere condolences to you and your family Callum.

By: Jono Bacon

Jono Bacon — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:27:50 +0000

Hi Calum,

Sorry to hear about your loss. Even though we are just a bunch of Internet friends out here, rest assured, you have friends who have you in our thoughts.

Jono