Comments for In loving memory of Kathy Bowles

Comment on A decade on by Nora

Nora — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 10:19:28 +0000

You are sadly missed my dear friend. R. I. P X

Comment on One Year On by Alli

Alli — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 12:16:27 +0000

First memories are of Auchinclech parties and daytime drop ins with the drop outs. We had our alternative culture in common.
Later I recall visiting your home when Adam was a youngster and Nick was teaching and into microlight flying. Kathy had both feet firmly on the ground.
Doug and I visited again when you ran the shop in Auchenblae.
Our last visit was to Siel Island . You showed us all around your lovely locality including a boat trip to the neighbouring island with slate quarries where we skimmed stones and locals wheeled their groceries from the boat to their homes in wheelbarrows.

Comment on Before We Met by Margaret lindsay

Margaret lindsay — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 19:37:06 +0000

Lovely to look back at Kathy’s old photos ,I’ll never forget her .xxx

Comment on And now it’s 2018 by Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 19:13:55 +0000

A mother well missed. Gone but not departed in our hearts.

Comment on And now it’s 2018 by Debbie Joy

Debbie Joy — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 15:33:33 +0000

Kathy was such a warm, steady, strong and capable person. Blink and you could miss her wry dry humour – she could debunk without undermining or putting down the debunkee (often Nick!).

Comment on One Year On by Mal

Mal — Mon, 09 Feb 2015 12:31:44 +0000

So many memories, from our first meeting up on Donside, through the years as friend and, for a while, neighbour, to your visit to Drumtochty just before I moved south.

I think of her often – her friendliness, her humour, her straightforward common sense that could cut to the heart of a problem, her bravery in the face of the worst that the universe could throw at her.

But above all her empathy. She came to visit me in hospital in Dundee on a very hot afternoon a few days after a chunk of my insides had been removed. I was not entertaining company – I wasn’t even capable of sitting up and a naso-gastric tube had reduced my communicative ability to the occasional grunt. Many people would have stayed for ten minutes or so and then departed, having done their duty. Not Kathy. She sat with me for the whole afternoon and her peaceful, empathetic presence provided great comfort at a time that I desperately needed it.

The memory of that unique presence, and that of other friends who are no longer with us, will remain a part of me as long as I live.

“And it’s just a box of rain, I don’t know who put it there,
Believe it if you need it or leave it if you dare,
Just a box of rain, or a ribbon for your hair,
Such a long long time to be gone and a short time to be there.”

Robert Hunter

Comment on One Year On by Rayan

Rayan — Sun, 08 Feb 2015 23:17:44 +0000

I have only joiful and happy memories of you and I wish that I had been able to spend more time with you and gotten to know you better, you are greatly missed and you will always be remembered.

Comment on One Year On by Silkie

Silkie — Sun, 08 Feb 2015 19:00:14 +0000

“Two kinds of women take to boats – those who like it and those who fear to be left behind”

Kathy was always a bold voyager in the former category but it’s not only her own strength that makes me miss her far more than is reasonable for someone I had only known eight years. Above all it’s the open-hearted support and encouragement she gave to others that makes her shine in my memory as a truly good and generous human being. A wee memory..

Cruising in company with Fairwinds and others on the west coast of Mull one year I was more than a little trepidatious about going out single-handed in my wee boat in the face of a dodgy forecast. She wasn’t the only one but it was Kathy’s calm assurance “So what if it’s F6/7? – it’ll be downwind – it’ll be fine.” that tipped the balance for me. It was fine and I still consult her sometimes before weighing anchor.

Miss you babe.

Comment on One Year On by Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 08 Feb 2015 12:20:00 +0000

It hardly seems necessary to say that we all miss you, but perhaps I may be permitted to add that a light has gone out in the family and taken with it an overly large share of coolness, kindness and good old common sense.

Comment on One Year On by Jack

Jack — Sat, 07 Feb 2015 13:21:18 +0000

So many fond memories since the old days at Auchinclech cottage-scene of legendary parties that Kathy was a keen participant in.

We always visited Nick and Kathy as they moved around the mearns and Kathy was always keen on gardening and gave me many good tips over the years.

To be honest its really hard to think she has gone but her spirit surely lives on.