My Farmor (Father’s Mother) had the biggest heart. She has long moved on, but she left her mark on mine.
This piece is my tribute to her legacy… I know nothing of where she came from but I know a lot about who she was!
She raised 4 children after WW2. Her husband was a merchant sailor and even when he was alive he was not there. When her youngest (my Dad) was 1 her husband lost his life on the other side of the world in a time when the world was a big plac...
My Farmor (Father’s Mother) had the biggest heart. She has long moved on, but she left her mark on mine.
This piece is my tribute to her legacy… I know nothing of where she came from but I know a lot about who she was!
She raised 4 children after WW2. Her husband was a merchant sailor and even when he was alive he was not there. When her youngest (my Dad) was 1 her husband lost his life on the other side of the world in a time when the world was a big place. Little is known about how and I assume he was never brought home. She raised these 4 people probably not entirely on her own, because she had a lot of love around her.
Yet her hard life did not stop her from being the most generous person. Maybe it was because others had shown generosity towards her or maybe she just saw the best in people.
She was so embarrassing when I was a teenager. She would go up to random people who looked my age and ask if they knew me… If they did (which often was the case where I grew up) she would tell them that I was the most wonderful person in the world… Sorry cousins, I don’t know if she did this to all of us or if I somehow got special treatment, but I can assure you at the time you would have been very welcome to it… Now I feel honoured to have had someone as special as her to see wonderful in me!
She had a very average singing voice, but she always sang the loudest. She was not very old before she got that ‘I really don’t care what people think of me’ attitude…
When the older cousins might try to trick the younger ones out of getting their fair share of the chocolate or run off to do something exciting without the little ones tagging along, she would simply say: Never leave a heart behind… I can tell you with absolute certainty that those words penetrates, however entitled to more sweets you might feel!
With what is happening in the world now I feel more people need my Grandmother Evelyn’s wisdoms. That is why we are making these… Use them as bread boards, cheeseboards or trivets, but keep them out every day and teach your loved ones to live by this principle.
ALL profits from these boards HAVE to go to charity as that is definitely what she would have expected of me.
Boards measure approximately 22 x 22 x 2 cm. Made in solid oak.