Frederick James Wills

Born 19 March 2006 Died 2 May 2007


Friday 20 March 2009


Yesterday would have been Fred’s third birthday.

We took an early trip up to Chagford, with the sun being rather bright and a heavy frost on the ground. We had a chat with Revd Gearing who conducted Fred’s funeral in May 2007, just as he was opening up the church.

He’d guessed it was an anniversary as we had a number of flowers to lay on his grave. Heidi mean while was pulling “Winston Churchill” faces at him. We trundled down to see Fred which is a bit difficult as the ground is uneven and Heidi’s pram isn’t really “terrain” at all.

The birds have been pinching moss of the grave, I suppose to build their little nests this time of year.

Once tidied up we headed off to Gran and Grandfer to say Hello, before driving down to South Petherton for the day to see Fred’s godmother, Frances. A lovely day with her, and Samuel and Daisy her two children, plus Shaun appeared too. I was a student with him many years ago in Newcastle and he’s now a nurse and who visited us whilst we lived in Bristol.

God bless you Freddie.
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4 comments:

Sheree said...

Hi Tim and Rachel, hope you are both well and I'm sure Heidi is growing by the day! Still think about Fred, god bless him. Anyway, take care, and speak soon, Sheree

7 April 2009 at 14:41
hannah said...

Hello, I'm Hannah, a facebook friend of Emma Lethbridge. I'm involved in the Baldy's blog, Register and be a Lifasaver campaign, educating students to make informed decisions about donation, its wonderful, inspirational. The responses have been goood and slowly we are getting names on the registers. I work for the NHSBT hands on with blood, we make products like those that Freddie had, red cells, platelets, and stem cells. Our son was premature, and like with Freddie, NG tubes, UV treatment, incubator, by his due date, he came home only to develop meningitis. Along the early days struggle, at 2 and a half, was diagnosed with a thyroglossal duct cyst, and under went surgery to remove growths from deep inside his neck, the lumps returned, and six op's later now 5, he's seems to be on the mend. I'm a volunteer, and if there's anything I can do to help, let me know. Have donated this morning,
XX Hannah Wales.

25 April 2009 at 11:02
MsCatMinder said...

Thoughts of Fred just after his anniversary hope you are ok Rachel and Tim x

4 May 2009 at 20:43
Merry said...

Hi,

I felt compelled to see if i could find you, after seeing your little boys gravestone the other day - that sounds a bit stalkerish but i hope you'll understand in a moment!

Your little boy is buried close to my husbands Gran; we remembered seeing his grave with hama bead patterns hanging on it a couple of years ago and my girls had often spoken of it. It stuck in their minds because we have a toy shop and our first ever product was hama beads.

This week we were back there to visit the grave again and the girls went to say hello to your little boy and were suddenly struck dumb. You see, 8 weeks ago we lost our little boy, when he was only 11 days old - for some reason he didn't breathe at birth and never recovered.

We called him Freddie - he died before he had a long name registered but we had planned to call him Frederick James. We hadn't remembered or known you little boys name - but when we saw it... gosh :(

Our Freddie is going to be buried in Mortonhampstead some time this summer, when we can bear to do it.

I just wanted to find you, if i could (knowing babyloss parents often blog) - and say that i thought of you when we were there, even though i have no idea who you are :)

Anyway, should you ever want to say hello, our blog is at www.patchofpuddles.co.uk

Much love and thoughts.

1 June 2010 at 14:49

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