Friday, 30 August 2013  For Baby John Gobbin and His Parents
Please click on the photo in order to enlarge  If the
photograph, above, isn't clear, then let me explain what it's
about. You are looking at a grave located in the burial yard of
Gooderstone Church, Norfolk. It commemorates John and Mary
Gobbin, who died in the early years of the twentieth century,
aged 78 and 83, respectively. However, there is an additional
name inscribed on this gravestone. It is another 'John Gobbin'
who died - presumably in the mid-1800s - after only three days.
If you look carefully, you'll notice something else. Placed
carefully in front of the stone is a white rose.   It was placed
by us in memory of the pain of loss experienced by the Gobbins
family, and as a tribute to the brief life of baby John. Just
because these lives have now passed beyond living memory doesn't
mean that we shouldn't empathise and care across the years. We
do. So, draped in a warm caress of late August sunshine we laid
this flower down and thought f