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Lily Pilly

FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
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This is a very difficult thread to start.
Many of you are aware that our lovely forum friend Lily Pilly had been unwell for some time. I'm so sorry to have tell everyone that she passed away on Sunday.

Her husband David contacted me today with the news, and to say it was very peaceful for her at the end, and how grateful he was for the messages from forum friends.
He also said how wonderful the care was in Lindsayfield Lodge where she had been.

I know many people will be thinking of him, and the whole family, as well as remembering Lily Pilly.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Aw bless'er. 
    Such sad news. 
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Such sad news. She was a special forum friend. 

    Thanks @Fairygirl ... not an easy post to make. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    I'm sorry to hear that news. Thanks for letting us know @Fairygirl.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • Daniel HaynesDaniel Haynes Posts: 393 admin
    We're very sorry to read this sad news, @Fairygirl - thank you for posting.

    Daniel
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Can I also add thanks to @Obelixx,  who contacted David because of the concerns some of us had about Lily Pilly.
    That meant we were able to discover what had happened, as he didn't know how to access the forum himself. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Very sad news.
    We had become quite good friends, even though we had never actually met. Audrey had invited us to visit on our next trip up to the highlands.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    It is very sad, especially for her husband and family.   She was an active and well-liked poster on this forum and has been missed during her illness.

    If anyone has a particular message - happy memory, condolences - they wish to send to her husband you can do it in a PM to Fairygirl or Dove or me and we will pass them on, as we have been with messages following the news of her illness. 
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066
    So sorry to hear such sad news.
    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,355
    Thank you for letting us know this sad news @Fairygirl. 
    Lily P had a beautiful garden and it was lovely hearing her anecdotes as she worked to improve and enhance it.
    It is reassuring to hear that she was safe and at peace in her last days. Best wishes to her husband and family.
    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
  • Pauline 7Pauline 7 Posts: 2,246
    Please send my condolences to Lily Pilly's family. I didn't 'know' her as well as at lot of you did, but enjoyed reading her posts. 
    I don't know if she ever met Joyce, but I can imagine them both sitting and chatting in a lovely garden enjoying a cuppa together, in wherever their afterlife is.
    West Yorkshire
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