Mike Hall

Just a few things that the mind refuses to give up on so that your shattered heart can somehow function a little easier. I know that as blokes normally go, they just clam up and refuse to show how they feel, well nuts to that. I’m hurting, I can’t shut up, I feel pain and anguish all the time. I try to hide behind a thinning veil which I think portrays the image that people want to see, but the...

Ikworth 18th August 2021

Well as promised, more rambling about my ramblings, this time I’m back at Ickworth again. This is my second solo trip out, so what! I hear you say, well it’s all about my little steps along my grief journey. Ickworth is only about 20 mins for me and despite driving past the place for so many years, it was only a couple of years ago that we actually went there, but we nev...

"THE JOURNEY"

This is an extract from my second book in the series which attempts to plot my path as I journey through the wilderness of grief. I do hope that I can read this in time and see how far I have got, maybe experiencing happier thoughts, maybe even find the things that are important to me, but maybe not. One thing I do know is that I can’t go on this way, to be honest, the future scare...

MY GRIEF JOURNEY

Hi all,

I hope that you are on this blog page just out of interest and not because you have suffered a loss. If its because of the latter, then we are sorry for your loss and we know what life is like for you and your family.

I have been posting on other media and bereavement sites and have noticed that people have been engaging with how grief has been affecting both me and my fa...

My first solo Walk away form home.

Well it’s a glorious day in Suffolk, not many hills, but still plenty of places to walk. I did a 7 mile wander around the grounds of a National Trust property. But more importantly it was the first solo walk I have done since losing my wife.

It was nice to get back in the countryside but painful that I was there on my own, so many couples just wandering hand in...