Bunnie Carol (Haggett) Lambert

 

Memorial Website

 

Things She Loved

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mum loved reading, music, movies and television, parks, beaches, comedy, talking, laughing, learning. 

 

Some songs that she truly loved are posted below:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mum also loved reading, had a voracious appetite for anything in print from pulp fiction and fashion magazines, to biographies, psychology and  medical encyclopaedias.  She really loved mysteries, probably her favourite of the genres, whether in print or on film.  In her later more sedentary years, Mum could often be found watching Unsolved Mysteries or some similar program.  She loved True Crime stories, and loaned me her book The Minds of Billy Milligan to read, before I was even a teenager.  Mum used to get coverless paperbacks for free from her sister's husband, my Aunt Sandra's husband Uncle Kelvin, and I remember piles and piles of them when I was under 10, and began my first book reading with some of them.

 

Mum really loved playing Bingo!  She talked me into going to play bingo her many times since my late teen years.  Mum was be very persuasive and could easily influence others with her appeals to whatever she knew would entice them.  I recall countless evenings listening to Mum eagerly waiting on one number for the jackpot.  And the odd times she did win the jackpot, people near her would always benefit.  She would tip the runner calling out the cards to see if they are winners, and even the bingo number caller too.  She would always make deals to split winnings with whomever she was playing with, so as to increase both people's chances of winning.  Her elation upon winning was hilarious and endearing.  And even losing, she would always remain courteous to everyone.

 

Manners were really important to my Mum, but I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say she loved them.  But she despised when they weren't used, so at least the converse is true.  Mum's manners enforcement started early and went well beyond merely saying please and thank-you to others; she displayed a classy, compassionate exterior to others, regardless of whatever struggles she may have been having of her own.

 

Mum was extremely fond of certain foods, and continued to eat them her entire life, like Fudgsicles, strawberries with sugar and whip cream, Shredded Wheat, After-Eights and fish and chips from The Wharf.  She was also an awesome cook and made the very best turkey stuffing you could possibly hope to taste - the perfect blend of spices, carmelized onions, properly small enough sized broken bread chunks dried hours in advance so as to achieve the exactly right moisture level once cooked, never too dry or too moist.  She would even take the turkey grease and pour it onto a whole extra batch of stuffing that didn't fit in the turkey, and bake that as well.  Mum made some killer stew and dumplings, and her Cream, Tuna and Peas was a family favourite. 

 

Mum loved to dance, and at my grade 8 graduation, parents were invited to the ceremony and then to the dance immediately following.  My mum was the first, and one of only a couple who actually got out and danced on the dance floor, showing off, having fun.  At the time, I probably turned several shades of red behind the DJ booth where I sat, but in years that followed I came to appreciate and admire her in that moment.

 

Dogs were a companion of my Mum's all through her life, at different times.  There was Tippy the German Shepherd from my earliest memories, then Shane the border collie, Teddy the wiener dog, then Lucky the Terrier and Misty the Coca-Poo.

 

Mum expressed her deep admiration and love for some few people on more than one occasion and they deserve mention here.  Her sister Shannon, who predeceased Mum, was probably the person she loved the most, outside of her children.  She also loved Trisha, Sandra, Betty-Anne and Billy, her other siblings, and spoke of them regularly.  Mum loved Mary Nesbitt, a true life-long friend.  And she loved Uncle Fred and Aunt Jackie, and their kids, my cousins Fred and Becky.  Mum also loved Aunt Margaret, her sister-inlaw.  Mum loved and missed her parents in the decades after they passed.

 

Another key love of my Mum's was humour;  she was intoxicated by parodies and satire, and often used them herself, much to the delight of all those around her whom she could have in stitches, with her mockeries. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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