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snowball

Hi Lynn my thoughts are with you and everyone else affected by whats happened today, take care love.

Love Julie ((((hugs))))

dorcas

Hi Lynn,
saw what happened on the early evening news......how awful, all those poor families.

Sending you love and strength and glad you and other forum peeps are ok.

Iris x

skezier

Hi Lynn,

So sorry its all been so bad there for you all today and hope its all ok now. Love and a ((((( ))))) Cris xxx

annie_mial

Jeez, Lynn, you lot don't half get it up there!

It's bewildering, isn't it? I can never begin to imagine what drives them to it, or flips them over the edge.

Poor chap, poor people, poor families.......when will all this gunning/cutting down for no reason stop? It seems to be worldwide now.

Annie

tkachev

I hope you are okay Lynn. There will be plenty of tears ahead Im sure. Not much i can say to help but my thoughts are with you. You are such a lovely lady and hate to think of you so upset. But it really is a horrible situation and so many locals effected.


Best wishes
Elizabeth x

dreamdaisy

It is a shocking event. A man, running berserk, with a rifle/shotgun, in a quiet, peaceful part of the world. I am sure that you are not the only one who's reacting in this way and it's not selfish to be concerned about your nearest and dearest, it's an instinctive response.

It'll be chaos there today I expect, with the world's press hanging around and the police trying to do a complicated job. As one eye-witness put it this morning, 'My world is still turning but for others it isn't.' Thinking of you, I hope you feel a little better today. DD

tillytop

Hi Lynn - just seen this thread this morning and I really hope you are coping today. So glad that all your loved ones are safe.
I don't know if this will be of any comfort to you but I live not far from Hungerford where you may remember that a similar situation occurred some years ago. I can still remember the horror and fear when I heard what was happening. My family had been due to visit Hungerford that day and I was unable to get hold of them - they were fine (they'd changed their minds and gone somewhere else instead) but many others were not and, like you I couldn't stop thinking about what had happened. Clearly Whitehaven will never ever be the same again and, like Hungerford and Dunblane, will be one of those places known for ever for the wrong reasons. But although nobody in the area will ever forget what has happened I have seen for myself in Hungerford that life does go on - initially I suspect because it has to - and people's strength and courage never ceases to amaze me. Thinking of you - and everyone else affected by these awful events. Love Tilly x

frogmorton

Hi Lynn

wondering if you are ok today and hoping you are. I wish I could help all of you there but thats not poss I know

Thinking of you on and off all day today.

Love and hugs

Toni xx

annie_mial

Lynn, just calling in to leave you some ((((((())))))). Hope you are feeling a little better today, but I guess it's early days yet. Should think it will take a while before some kind of normality emerges throughout the community, but you would know about that.

It seems that nowhere is safe these days..............I'm sure we didn't get any of these 'person rages' years ago, did we?

Annie

Wonkylegs

collywobble wrote:

Hi everyone

Thank you so much for your kind words and support. I'm not really sure what you're supposed to feel when something like this happens. I have to stop myself thinking about all those poor people and their families - it just keeps whizzing round in my head - how you can wake up one day, go about your normal business and then that's it, your life is just snatched away. It's all just too overwhelming.

Tilly, thank you for your reply. It all feels very surreal, doesn't it? I see all these familiar places on the news, part of our everyday life, even our postmistress being interviewed, and it's hard to equate that with what has happened. Now I'm rambling, sorry.

Anyway, my friends, I can't tell you what it meant to me yesterday, being able to ramble on while this was happening - it was very scary, so I appreciate you being there. Now you all know where I go for my rheumy appointments :roll:

Love from Lynn xxx
(and by the way, we don't all talk funny)

HI Lynn

thanks for your post today ..... was thinking of you today and wondering how you were feeling ... I think it may be worse for many as the time goes on because you get to thinking. Our minds are not always helpful like that are they?! I know what you mean about needing to stop thinking too much about the 'what if's' .... I found myself thinking very differently this morning when I took the dog out.

Hopefully the post from Tilly will have given you some encouragement that there is a way forward out of this, once the media & all the attention has drifted onto something else.

still thinking of you and sending hugs ((((((((((())))))))
WOnky xxx

ironic

Oh Lynn, I do hope you are all doing a little better. Such a awful nightmare for everyone. The main thing is that the community will pull together. Thinking of you and sending you hugs and truely hope that you can find some peace soon.

Love from, Ix

skezier

Sending ((( )))'s Lynn and hopes for a better day. Love Cris xx

frogmorton

Hi Lynn

Glad you are ok(ish) anyway.

Was a little bit worried as I kepot seeing your little hometown on the telly and thinking how I would feel

You take very good care

Love and hugs

Toni xx

(and Daisy-kitten)

suncatcher

How awful this has happened and everyone in the community.wil be affected in one way or other sending hugs and thoughts to you and your community. this is oo awful for words my sympathy to you all

dachshund

Hi Lynn.
i hope things are getting on alright with you.
i just dont know wht to say to you i cannot think of thr right thing to say.
take care all of you. joan xx

annie_mial

Lots of love and hugs ((((((((())))))))) Lynn; probably too soon to hope that things are settling down a little, but hope that you are feeling better in yourself today.

Annie

bertyboy

just leaving some hugs for you Lynn and for all that has been afected by this , its so so sad , so many lives have been scared for life xxxxx

tillytop

Tilly, thank you for your reply. It all feels very surreal, doesn't it? I see all these familiar places on the news, part of our everyday life, even our postmistress being interviewed, and it's hard to equate that with what has happened. Now I'm rambling, sorry.

Hi Lynn - yes it does feel very surreal. Although Hungerford is not part of my daily life in the same way as Whitehaven is for you, it is still so frightening to be close to something like that and, as you say, to see familiar places all over the news in such a dreadful context. Thinking of you. Lots of love Tilly x

tkachev

Hi Lynn,

Thinking of you and all those poor people whos lives have been turned upside down. I was so upset to see that poor 9 year old boy who witnessed the shooting of a passer by and knew another lady who was shot and actually had the gun turned on his family. How is he going to cope with those memories poor kid

Elizabeth

dreamdaisy

Hello collywobble, I hope you are feeling a little brighter today.

I re-read your post of a couple of days age - no-one is 'supposed' to feel certain things, you feel what you feel. It's an horrendous thing to have happened and it takes time for the world to adjust. The prevailing emotions for everyone possibly consist of a horrible mixture of sorrow and relief, with a bit of guilt thrown in for good measure because your family is OK. I'm sure the whole town (and the other places too) are still in a state of stunned shock. Things will settle, they always do. It will probably help when the press start going, if they haven't already. Then something approaching normality will return.

I've been thinking of you all since Wednesday. I hope you are all coping and supporting each other. We're here if you need us. DD

page35

Hi Lynn
sorry only just seen this thead
just wanted to send my best wishes and hope you are coping as well as you can when something like this happens
take care
sharon xx

ninakang

Sorry Lynn, just catching up

Thinking of you

Nina X