Naseeb’s 30th Birthday

Most people reading this will probably have noticed the recurring theme of daffodils in the posts on this blog. To recap: when Naseeb was little and someone asked when his birthday was, the usual answer would have been an approximation of the month and day. Instead, Naseeb would simply say “It’s when the daffodils come out”. It was a sense of this part of the year in relation to the seasons and nature which he somehow connected with, and so daffodils have been a regular feature in our lives around his birthday.

Daffodils for Naseeb's 30th Birthday

This year is special (but really every year is), he would have been 30 years old today. As parents we dearly hold our love for Naseeb every day expressed in all kinds of ways – including daffodils.

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Revisiting Malham Cove on the 7th Anniversary

Last weekend and the few days leading up to it were the seventh anniversary of when Naseeb passed away. This year we decided to mark it with a day out at Malham Cove and the nearby Gordale Scar up in North Yorkshire, where we took Naseeb when he was an infant.

It’s a striking place to see and at that age the scale and size of the place must have seemed even larger and more dramatic. Malham Cove has a heck of a lot of steps to climb, but at the top there is what they call a ‘limestone pavement’ made of huge slabs of rock (clints) which are separated by gaps (grykes). It’s pretty dramatic.

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Birthday Cake!

Today is Naseeb’s 28th Birthday. He loved birthday cakes, especially Victoria Sponge, Madeira cake and lemon and poppy seed cake.

Naseeb designed this birthday cake on his 4th birthday specifying for it to have an aeroplane on it carrying a lion, a tiger and elephant. We’ll be having a lemon and poppy seed cake today.

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Light up the earth

On Saturday it will be Naseeb’s birthday, he would have been 27 years old. Here’s a poem which Balwant wrote recently, along with a few photos of daffodils in our garden taken by Kooj.

We hold you close
So close
We celebrate loving you
holding you
seeing you
touching you
hearing you
knowing you

You can spot them
a mile off
At this time of year
They light up the earth
Daffodils, like you lit up our lives
And remain shining
in all the spaces
we now turn in

We hold you close
So close