25/09/2026
Personal post! Today I say goodbye and celebrate the life of my beautiful Grandma. She lived a fantastic life, a hard one too, living through poverty, nursing and living in a N**i bombed London through the war, living with grief nobody should endure but her faith and love for her family ensured she conquered everything life put her through. Her stength and tenacity is something I will always aspire to. She knew the key to longevity was eat well and keep moving, she was an amazing swimmer, pounding length after length even til she was 95!
She has been there for me my entire life and I will never stop being grateful for the invaluable life lessons she taught me and for the time we had together. (That mixture of fiestiness, kindness and giving everything 100% or don't do it, you may see in me, it comes from here!)
101 and still writing in her daily diary, absolute legend. Mabel Leatham Thomas 1924-2026 💛💛