Wendy's wisdom

Shortly after Wendy died, Jenny emailed me to say "I'd never thought before how many times I quote things Wendy has said, things like - any fat you lose floating around in the atmosphere waiting to land on someone, babies knowing everything when they're born then slowly forgetting by the time they learn to speak, all walking book writers being called colin, and so on. So she still makes me laugh."

This started me thinking about Wendy's many unique, quirky and insightful sayings. Here are a few that come to mind:

• You're falling in front again! (said when she had fallen behind on a walk)
• It's fallen to part! (I think she got this originally from Duncan when he was a toddler)
• Nature abhors a flat surface (surfaces in our house always seemed to be covered with stuff)
  
• When Wendy began holding the TV remote control in the night as a comfort-thing, she called it her remotey. She asked me to bring remotey into hospital for her, along with her white fleece blankie when she was in LGH in July. (Tim had a comfort blanket called "blankie" when he was a toddler, and our grandson Sam had a "silkie")
• Duncan's dog Lloyd, and then later Tim's dog Bear were both our grand-dogs
• Wendy had different "modes" of walking on a mountain: Prince Charles mode was hands-behind-back with head down, while mule mode was staring intently at her feet to make sure they were still moving.
• Cronin's Law states that you can't get 10 people on a mountain before 12:00 noon. (There are other versions, but I think this is the original form).
  

More contributions welcome, please! I'd like to preserve as much as I can of Wendy's unique wisdom before it gets forgotten.

Celebrating Wendy's life

This is the first post in a blog I have created as a forum for us to share our memories of Wendy's life. Please add new posts of your own, or add comments to other posts where appropriate.