{"id":31673,"date":"2026-10-11T15:10:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T14:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcclellandmedia.com\/blog\/?p=31673"},"modified":"2026-10-11T15:12:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T14:12:25","slug":"october-2026-remembering-mum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcclellandmedia.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/11\/october-2026-remembering-mum\/","title":{"rendered":"October 2026 – Remembering Mum"},"content":{"rendered":"

October 2026. A year since my last blog update.<\/p>\n

I update Facebook and Insta all the time, so don’t tend to update often on here, relying on my Social Plugins on the site to give updates… But an update is due.
\nAnd I think it may be in a few parts. So bear with me as I sort out a year…<\/p>\n

Remembering Mum…
\nJune Margaret Rose McClelland
\n25\/9\/1932-29\/5\/2026<\/h3>\n

\"\"My mum passed away in May, aged 93. She’d been in a Care Home since June 2023 as her mobility wasn’t good and we couldn’t cope at home, despite help from carers visits.<\/p>\n

She’s hoped that she could spend time with people her own age, but the nature of Care Homes is that many residents are hard of hearing, like my mum. So sitting and chatting wasn’t easy. She couldn’t hear what others were saying, and they couldn’t hear her. And Mum loved TV shows and keeping up on news. Many of her fellow residents didn’t share those interests. So she spent much of her time in her room. I visited as often as I could, usually taking the dogs in – and they were always a hot with all residents and staff.<\/p>\n

Mum had a decline in her last months, some periods of delirium due to infections, she became less mobile and then confined to bed, moved with the help of a sling contraption.<\/p>\n

She passed away quietly on May 29th. And as requested, there was no funeral service – she wanted a cremation, and then a party to celebrate her life. We had two. One in Sheffield at the New Barrack Tavern on August 1st, a second in Canada on August 29th, hosted in Amherst, NS, by my friends Charlie and Heather. Mum left money for the celebration, so I was able to go to Canada, along with some of her ashes, mixed with some of Dad’s and some ashes from two dogs, Yorkie’s Barty and Angus. Scattered in a place they loved.<\/p>\n

\"\"I still find myself thinking, “oooh, I haven’t called mum, I’ll do it…. now.”
\nMissed every day, but I know at the end she was ready to leave.<\/p>\n

Some pics of Mum<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Pictures from Celebrations of Mum’s life<\/strong><\/p>\n

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October 2026. A year since my last blog update. I update Facebook and Insta all the time, so don’t tend to update often on here, relying on my Social Plugins on the site to give updates… But an update is due. And I think it may be in a few parts. So bear with me … Continue reading October 2026 – Remembering Mum<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"October 2026 - Remembering Mum","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,6,104],"tags":[215,149,44],"class_list":["post-31673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-family","category-sheffield","tag-canada","tag-family","tag-sheffield"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VL6J-8eR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcclellandmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcclellandmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcclellandmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcclellandmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcclellandmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31673"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mcclellandmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31782,"href":"https:\/\/mcclellandmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31673\/revisions\/31782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcclellandmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcclellandmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcclellandmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}