There was a good crowd at the Blue Boar yesterday afternoon to remember Mollie Lord after her funeral at the Humber Woodland of Remembrance. Tea, coffee and sandwiches, cake and quiche were available along one side of the bar, where there's a raised area at the back with tables. Some of the people there had known her in London or Brighton, before she came to Hay. Sara shared a lot of similar interests with Mollie, Lyn had mentored her writing, John ran the social dreaming group that she contributed to, and I saw Janine from the Hay Theatre Group, and Sean, and several other familiar faces.
There were some spare orders of service that were given out, and the reading that had been chosen was typical of Mollie, who was devoted to all the dogs she had over the years. It was from The Journey by Crystal Ward Kent, and was about how much you can learn about life from your dog. (Mollie's latest dog has been taken by her daughter).
Father Richard shared a story about Mollie, when she said she had met God on the Warren - to which he replied: "How's He keeping?"
She said she had been sitting on a bench, and a sheep came up to her and laid its head on her knee, and she felt that she had met God.
John Clare said that she was the most prodigious dreamer he had ever encountered, in all his years of running the social dreaming group. She kept notebooks full of her dreams, and he recounted a couple to us (in one, she was knighted for services to lobster-kind!). John is also an artist, and encouraged her in her work - she held an exhibition of her work at the Globe.
We also learned that she had had a difficult childhood, as both her parents committed suicide. The third person to speak had grown up with Mollie - they had played together, and gone to night clubs together, and she said she felt that she had lost a sister.
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