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The Naming Day (Words)
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On Sunday 11th August 2002 a hundred or so of Felix’s closest family and friends gathered together to celebrate his arrival in this world. This page contains some of the lovely words that were written and spoken on that day.
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THE WISHES
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THE SPEECHES
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After Felix's chosen family spoke some words, we asked everyone to write a wish for Felix and attach it to a helium balloon. Then we all went outside. Felix’s mum sang a little song, at the end of which everybody let go of their balloon, and we all watched them drift up into the sky, wiping tears from our eyes.
Luckily we persuaded everyone to write their wishes down twice, so we had a record of what they wrote. Below you will see all the lovely wishes for Felix.
Big Love from all of us... we'll try to make the world a better place for you. X
Mike Killian.
To Felix,
MY WISH...
If I had a wish
I'd wish for peace & joy
for every animal, bird & fish,
for every girl & boy....
There would be no fighting,
there would be no war,
everyone would be happy,
for years to come, & more....
by Nina (age 12)
To Felix I wish you a Happy life
Lots of love From Freya
I WISH FELIX ALL THE FISH THAT HE CAN EAT
Doug
XXX
Karen + Jim wish for all Felix’s hopes and dreams to come true.
FAITH, HOPE, LOVE,
BUT
THE GREATEST OF THESE IS LOVE.
Edna & Eric.
I wish you endless laughter
Hannah Griffiths
Hannah Hagan wishes that Felix will be good at reading stories.
Harry Hagan wishes that Felix is really good at ball games.
Alison & Mark Hagan wish Felix happiness.
To carry a tune
Steve Griffiths.
I hope you have a lovely head of hair.
Cathy Griffiths
May Felix’s life be rich in love and friendship.
Sara F.
Peace, love, dancin and friends
Matthew Griffiths.
……Auntie Lucy in her auntular wisdom says…..
…..Dreams may not always come true….
- but may you enjoy them, and the places they take you!
I wish that Felix’s life is full of excitement and joy.
Aunty Em XX
My wish to you Felix Anthony Sudbery is that you grow from the love of your family and friends into a healthy and happy individual. May your life be filled with passion & fulfilment & success.
Megan X
May you always walk on sunshine Felix
love Clare X
Felix, I hope you inherit your mum & dad’s intelligence, humour, tolerance, kindness and spirit of adventure. See you at the bar!
Sean X
I wish Felix depth, strength and above all good luck and true happiness
Grant + Alison.
I hope all your dreams come true and that you always know how much you are loved by us all. You have a special place in my life. Now Scoot!
Love Aunty Saira X
Come on you Reds…
Felix… wishes for you: love, long life, and happiness.
Best wishes for the future
Andy Stone X
Felix, I wish you can fly right up to the sky!
Love Johnny X
Felix, my only wish for you is that you be happy
Your mother,
Clare
XXX
Well, obviously, Felix, we wish you health, wealth, & happiness. But also the stars to shine, the sun to blast, volcanoes to erupt, flowers to bloom, herbs to give scent, and all the sensual & intellectual pleasures of life. Complimenti e buon viaggio!
John Sudbery
Love, Peace, Happiness
Great Grandad Steve
I wish for you to be musical in every way
with love from Gill X
A Wish for Happiness, Good Health and to be able to take advantage of all the opportunities this world has to offer. (anon)
A peaceful world, where war becomes obsolete.
Jane Oberman
Wishing you good health, happiness & a long life.
Nicky McNicholas.
I WISH YOU HAPPINESS HEALTH & STRANGENESS
Gordon
I wish you confidence without arrogance
empathy with all living beings
calmness of mind.
Love from Alan.
May your hands always be busy
May your feet always be swift
May you have a sound foundation
when the winds of changes shift (anon)
May you cultivate a love of reading that you may never be lonely or bored…
Ginette
May your muse always visit when you need inspiration
Tom Drummond
Felix I wish for you lots more balloons
William Drummond
Fun Frolicking and Adventure
Jenny Drummond
Felicitations
Many happy days dear Felix
Clare Drummond
Dear Felix, be a groovy cat,
have many friends and lots of fun
and things like that.
James Drummond
Felix – Onward and upward
Jan.
Wishing you a happy smile for every day
Fran & Amber
Wishing you a long happy healthy life
Andrea & Paul
A sense of awe.
Mary Griffiths.
A long and loving partnership with one who will care
Great-Uncle Pete.
I Hope that you get Love from everyone
Jenny Fogg
May you always wear your kilt with pride – true Scotsman?
Love Aunty Lucy & Joanne XXXX
Have a life of love and laughter.
May you never be lost for words when the blank sheet of paper is thrust in your face.
Uncle Geoff and Aunty Suzanne.
Dear Felix,
Welcome! My wish for you is that you have much happiness and good health living at Leedale Street, and wherever you find yourself in the future.
With love from Linda (who used to live in your house!) X.
MAY YOU GROW UP CONTENTED & NOT SUPPORTING MANCHESTER UTD
UNCLE IAN (RILEY).
Granthony’s fairy godmother friend brought Felix the gifts of Rhythm Curiosity & Desire
Stay enchanted forever! (anon)
Be whoever you want to be – but being as smart, witty and sane as your Dad is a good place to start. (anon)
I wish you a sense of rythm rhythm + dancing feet (and an ability to spell)
Love from Carol.
Rebuild the library of Alexandria in Levenshulme.
Andy Lowndes
Felix – Go for it!! I hope that you do lots of exciting and fulfilling things in your life. And I wish you Felicity!! (which means happiness) Have a good one
from Your Great Uncle Dave X
Wishing you good health, happiness and an abundance of clean, fresh towels.
Glenn
To Felix,
The greatest wish of all is coming from your own heart. That is what I wish for you.
+ love, life + liberty – of course
Angela XXX
MAY EVERY CHALLENGE LIFE PRESENTS YOU BE OVERCOME
LEAVING PEACE IN YOUR WAKE, AND MAY THAT PEACE BRING YOU EVERY JOY.
STEVE ARNOLD
My wish to you is that you learn the value of humility, patience & forgiveness, and that the world then becomes a richer place for you.
Katy H X
I wish that Felix will have a happy life (anon)
Wishing you everything you wish yourself + more + always follow your dreams. X
Jo Weller.
To Felix,
Enjoy the scenery
love Mel XX
I wish for Felix that he can follow the path of a true human being.
TJ
I wish for Felix that he will grow up in a world full of love + happiness.
X Emma 2 X
I wish for Felix that he will grow up to be a caring and loving man.
From Saffron
To Felix,
I wish you joy, excitement + happiness,
love Mia Freecloud Mosaic Moon. XX
To Felix,
I wish for you a bike, a belt and a balloon,
lot of love Dylan Cosmic Blue XX
I wish that Felix woold ride a motorbike with me
Torin
We wish Felix will experience the joys of soil underfoot and the thrill of producing fruit and fragrant flowers,
Love Rachael, Andrew and Kathryn.
I wish for Felix that his life is true to his name.
(luv, steve X)
Felix, May you always hang on to your dreams, so that they come true
Peace & Joy Love & Happiness
Gidon
Your first single goes to #1 (anon)
Wishing a Felix a taste for adventure coupled with a thirst for knowledge.
Kirsty
Wishing you lots of love, kisses and hugs. Sweet dreams always, wishes on far-away stars. Inter-galactic travel, reaching for the moon. It’s all there, waiting for you. X (anon)
FELIX
Not the bad dream’s but I hope all your good dream’s come true.
Sarah Fogg
May Felix always be kind and loving – and be loved and receive kindness in return. (anon)
I WISH YOU GET LOVELY PEOPLE IN YOUR LIFE TO KEEP YOU COOL MAN.
Bob XXXX
Wishing Felix a long, healthy and happy life. (anon)
Dear Felix, May you know happiness in all things, joy and love wherever your journey takes you & the knowledge of how much you are loved by so many people.
Love Sue, Nick, Amie + Bethany
Welcome to the big wide world, may you always be true to what you believe in
Ragnhild
Felix – I only hope you bring yourself as much joy as you have brought to your mum and me.
Dad XX
Sonnets & sennets & trouble free teeth
Nan
Happy & wise
Jenny Olive
Keep growing mighty Felix
Bill Tutton
May all your talents be realised
Barbie Tutton
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Emma, Mike & Saira, and Katy, Harold, Bysshe & Atalanta agreed to be Felix’s chosen family, and they all said a few words.
It just so happened that Katy, Harold & Bysshe left one of their scripts behind on a table, so I took the liberty of transcribing it here, as the words are so poetic:
[Harold]
Felicitations Felix: here’s to your start Felix, your beginning becoming what you will be on all the lush trajectories of life….
[Bysshe]
F is for fun
E is for eager
L is for love from a lion
I is for important
X is for excellent
I like Felix. I think he is a really cute baby.
I will be a brother and cousin and friend to him.
Atalanta and I will look after him very well when he is bigger, and show him all the tricks.
[Harold]
You’re already on the blocks ready to give ‘em hell, and I don’t just mean Ally and Clare. A start and you’re away, crying crawling, cursing clambering cruising climbing, just reaching that one step higher, teetering on tiptoes to see what they’re up to, to join in, join them, as we’ve all joined you here, for you, today, baby. I hope you won’t let this starting pistol startle you.
Lucky here? I think so, given your choice of parents
Happy here? I hope so, getting ready to get going
Not a step yet on the roads you’ll travel, but we’ll be here, and there and everywhere, just over there, third tree on the left, not lurking eactly, but rather casting half an eye, a helping hand, to pluck the fruit, to help you on your ever changing road, past the rocks, through the forest, across the river, over the hills and far away. As you traverse all those terrains, you’ll learn to ride your luck even before you know that it’s written into your name in latin. Ave felix, ad excursus, semper felix.
[Katy]
It’s a real honour to be asked to be a part of Felix’s family, and a wonderful compliment to the family that Harold and I have created.
We spent some time thinking about the obligations of this invitation to be family – to help him on his journey, to offer advice and guidance, to not turn away when that advice is ignored, to love him without judgement, and to protect and support him and the decisions and choices he makes in his life. But burning fiercely through these thoughts is the privilege of being asked to witness and participate in Felix’s life, the joy and pride of watching a young life develop and embrace the world, to the hopes and dreams that children remind you of and to the brute, raw, ever-present consuming love.
Here’s to you, Clare and Ally, our friends, and to your beautiful son, Felix. Welcome to your family Felix, may we be everything that you need.
Felix’s mum left her script behind too:
“I just want to say a few words. First, the lyrics from a song, which I think say all that needs to be said about parenthood:
Your children are not your children
They are the sons and the daughters of life’s longing for itself
They come through you but they are not from you
And though they are with you
They belong not to you.
You can give them your love but not your thoughts
They have their own thoughts
You can house their bodies but not their souls
For their souls dwell in a place of tomorrow
Which you can not visit, not even in your dreams
You can strive to be like them
But you can not make them just like you
Strive to be like them
But you can not make them just like you.
Felix is not our child.
He is everybody’s child, but most of all he is his own child.
Today, we are giving Felix Anthony Sudbery to all of you.
So you can help us to help him to be everything that he wants to be.”
After these words and more from Emma and Mike & Saira, we asked everyone to write a wish for Felix and attach it to a helium balloon. Then we all went outside. Felix’s mum sang the following words, at the end of which everybody let go of their balloon, and we all watched them drift up into the sky, wiping tears from our eyes.
In C Major (D denotes the D above C major, and D’ is an octave above that):
Felix we name you
GG F Eb D C
Felix we give you
C’C’ D’ Bb A G
With blessings and love
G C’C’ C Bb
With wishes above
C GG C F
We send you on a journey
C G G A G E D C
Our gift to you is life
E D C D E C
(Actually it wasn’t sung in C major at all, it was sung in F major)
Later on the grand and great-grand parents proposed some toasts.
Felix's Nan said this:
Felix Anthony, now that you're here and we can all love you, we wish you good fortune in everything you do. May all the powers of earth and heaven watch over you and protect you; may you live and grow in grace and health, and may you be as happy as your name.
A POEM (by Nan):
Felix Today
Felix, today you are just twelve weeks old;
You change like sunlight with each passing hour
You open like the petals of a flower
And day by day your qualities unfold.
You find your self in everything you do
Your blueprint holds the person you will be
You are the things you touch and taste and see
You reach and clutch the world that cradles you.
Be blithe and bonny, little Sabbath lad!
Be loved, our small beloved, as you grow;
Be sunny-natured, fortunate, and glad,
Be happy Felix everywhere you go.
These are the wishes that for you we frame;
This is your naming day, and this your name.
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