For you thereall be no crying For you the sun will be shining aCause I feel that when Iam with you Itas alright, I know itas right
And the songbirds keep singing Like they know the score And I love you, I love you, I love you Like never before
To you, I would give the world To you, Iad never be cold aCause I feel that when Iam with you Itas alright, I know itas right
And the songbirds keep singing Like they know the score And I love you, I love you, I love you Like never before
Like never before; like never before.
Thinking about you way past my bedtime / Cousin Dan Hi Joel, Its now past 3am and you would almost certainly be on MSN at this time. I always enjoyed your company and chatting with you. It made me happy to know what you were getting up to in your life all year round because we didnt see each other as often as id have liked.
I remeber staying around yours one time, you came downstairs looking exhausted. We started talking and you told me that you were trying to stay awake long enough to hallucinate due to lack of sleep. Telling me that youd already been awake for well over a day. Made me laugh but i wouldnt be surprised if it worked!!!
Think about you a lot Joel, especially when the family gets together. And also every time i see someone with a unique dress sense like yours, or long ginger hair.
Dan x
Poem - After Glow / Mum (Mum)
AFTER GLOW
I'd like the memory of me
to be a happy one
***
I' d like to leave an after glow
of smiles when life is done
***
I'd like to leave an echo
whispering softly down the ways
***
of happy times and laughing times
and bright and sunny days
***
I'd like the tears of those who grieve
to dry before the sun
***
with happy memories
that I leave when life is done
Easter/ Mum And Dad (Mum and Dad ) Hi Joel
Remembering today some 23 years ago on what would have been just before your 2nd Easter when you were about 18 months old. You found the 10 easter eggs we had bought for your cousins when we weren't looking. You proceeded to very quietly either take a bite out of each one or eat half the choccies in the middle. We found you , covered in chocolate and with a massive grin on your face you said `The Easter Bunny has been!' A beautiful memory son xxx We love you.
Just printed out a pic of you, me, and Danielle. It's a really nice one form my 21st birthday. I am gonna get it framed. I was just thinking how nice it was that you met her. You and her got on so well, as you were both very simliar. I think you guys would have been great friends, and shes been great to me since you've been gone. I have been thinking of late about how much of a shame it will be that two such important people in my life have hardly known each other. Thanks for making her feel so welcome when she was over, I know she thought you were a cool guy. Thinking of you.
Josh
Thanks xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx / Jane And Russ (Mum and Dad ) ...To everyone for adding your lovely comments about Joel here. It is so wonderful for us all to know how loved, missed and remembered Joel is.
Every memory you share with us makes us smile ..maybe cry a little..and then smile again.
xxxx Jane and Russ
Hey Joel / Gemma Stubbs (Cousin) Hey Joel, just wanted to say that I miss you and think about you alot! Me and Dan were laughing the other day, thinking back to Christmas time 2004 I think it was when we were all around grandma and grandads playing cranium. The question was 'what is so special about Xena's rope' or something like that, and you said 'It has the power to tie up any man!' and we were laughing because someone said(cant rember who) Normal rope can do that!! And you were so confident and convinced that it was the right answer! It brings a smile to my face to remember times like that. Another thing i remember is when we were alot younger, over grandmas and grandads again and you had a bee in your hands and you were feeding it sugar! Me being petrified of bees and wasps couldnt believe what you were doing! lol.The last memory I have of you, the last time I saw you i think was at another get together at grandmas. I was really cold so you gave me ur jacket, a small gesture but so sweet. I wish we could have spent more time together Joel. Gemma xxxxx
8 months on / Josh Davies (Brother) It was 8 months two days ago since Joel died. I thought it would have sunk in by now, I still find it hard to believe I am never going to see him again. We all miss Joel so much. I want to chat to him, tell him they are making a new season of the previously cancelled FOX cartoon 'Futurama'. He would always be the first and most enthusiatic person I could tell stuff like that. We all miss him in so many.
Shine on, Wish you were here / Jill Dewsbury I did not know your son but what I do know is that he and my daughter Joanne would have got on famously. Joanne loved, Shine on you crazy diamond and drove us crazy too playing it time after time. Joanne also died in her sleep aged 27 from Sleep Apnia, so as a parent, I have been where you are now and send my love, support and condolences for you and your family. Hopefully they are up there rockin together to Pink Floyd having a really good time.
Missing the mad random Text messages!! / Donna Hopton (Friend) Hey Joel,
Last time I saw you was the day before I left for Doncaster, I had a great year living in Cardiff, and the final 9 months were made amazing by you. Working together at O'Neills was a blast and I was always garunteed a great day at work if you were there. And the wild nights at my house after work, were always fun aswell.
I came back to Doncaster to complete my nurse training with the view of returning back to Cardiff, but I got pregnant and became stuck here, however, you never let our friendship slip, I could go months without hearing from you and then out of the blue I'd get a wild text, usually something along the lines of 'It's snowing here, I love snow!' And the MSN conversations about random stuff were always interesting.
You always planned to come visit me up here but it never acctually happened, I really wish we had made more effort.
The thing I remember most about you is your hair! I loved your long hair and was totally gutted when you told me you had cut it all off! Especially as it was exactly the same colour as mine.
I found out you had gone to the otherside one night when I rang your mobile as I hadn't heard from you for a while, and your brother answered, I think it was Jack. I was so shocked I had to ring back and make sure I'd heard right. I was so devastated, but I'm sure I'll see you again some day, after all the soul lives on.
I think about you alot and will always keep a special part of my heart especially for you.
Lots of love,
Donna.
xxxxxxxxxx
Dear Joel / Charlotte (Friend)
Joel,
I was sitting in Callaghans this weekend,thinking about the last time I saw you there,smoking,drinking whiskey and chatting to me about Ghosties and Ghoulies..and someone approached me who looked almost exactly like you..it freaked me out a little,but I get it, I think you were giving me a bit of a poke in the ribs and saying "Come on now,stop being daft..I'm alright"
Hope the views good for you anyway matey...miss you.
P.S Your hair was better than his. Close
Memories of our special first grandchild / Grandma And Grandad (Grandparents)Read >>
Memories of our special first grandchild / Grandma And Grandad (Grandparents)
Hi Joel
Not a day passes that we don't think of you with great affection. Every time Grandad goes fishing your presence is felt. He sees you chasing insects and snakes as you did when you were younger. We remember when you were 18 months old playing with Rooey the hand puppet rabbit who you conversed with through Grandad.
Happy, happy memories of you, our first grandchild will live with us forever.
As a boy and a man we found you so captivating Joel, so full of your own ideas about life. You were always so knowledgeable and you explained scientific jargon to us even as a small boy. You would have been a great Lecturer.
Your opinions were your opinions and you always felt very strongly about them. When we could we tried to help you out financially and we were glad we helped you buy your specs when you broke your only pair. Wish we could have done more for you. Grandma enjoyed painting your portrait from your photograph in July 2005, She felt very close to you and it seemed as if you guided her with it.
When you and your brothers and cousins were small, Grandad wrote stories about all of you. When we read them now the memories of you as a child come flooding back. These memories are never to be forgotten. The stories tell of your love for fireworks and fishing and your favourite ever toy..your beloved Kanga.
As a child Joel you had the mind of a mature adult, and as an adult you had some child like qualities, which manifested themselves in your love of science fiction and comedy.
You are always in our thoughts Joel. The pain of losing you in unbearable but the memories of you are priceless.
Missing You / Josh Davies (Brother)
I shall say the things I wanted to say to Joel in this message. As Jack said; Joel, we thank you for the time you gave us. You and I, were very similar, more so than either of us would have liked to admit. We all were each of us brothers very simlilar,and I think it is something we would have come to recognise as we grew older. I miss you. I miss telling you the geeking things I find. You were one perosn I knew would care when I found some odd peice of trivia. I miss your philosophy, and I miss the power you had to make people beliver your word was truth. I love you, and still love your memory. I hope that the parts of your personality that live on in me and Jack continue. I hope Einstien was right and that you continue, as there are many universes, you just live in the fifth dimension to us...You will live forever. Close
Thanks for the good times / Becky Emery (Friend)Read >>
Thanks for the good times / Becky Emery (Friend)
Man, my tribute to you has to start with something you said yourself: That one day if you dissappeared out of the lives of people who knew you you wanted to be remembered by this Green Day song:
Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)
Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road
Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go
So make the best of this test, and don't ask why
It's not a question, but a lesson learned in time
It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.
So take the photographs, and still frames in your mind
Hang it on a shelf in good health and good time
Tattoos of memories and dead skin on trial
For what it's worth it was worth all the while
It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.
It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.
It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.
You said if you ignored the first part of the title it was just about letting go with no regrets and remembering the good times. I always figured you meant you'd piss off to India or something, trust you to be a lot more drastic and unpredictable.
You gave everyone who knew you the time of their lives, and you are much loved. I know I'm privileged that I got to share so much time and so many great experiences with you and your unique take on life!
Thank you for all the great times and all the memories, there are far too many to list!
My love and condolonces go to Joel's family and all the other peole missing him. Close
You would have had a mery chrismas Joel. Getting pissed and stoned, trying desperately to get off with some women. You kept it merry at xmas Joel. I will remember you most at New Year, you partied with the best of them!!! Love you Joel. Merry Christmas.
i didnt have as much time with Joel as I would've liked, but I think I speak for us all when I say that. Joel was a spectacular person and left a great impression on everyone he met. Joel and I didnt have see each other too often, whenever I went round his house, he was always in bed and when i left at around 4pm he would just be getting up. He was a very inteligent person, and was deeply in love with science. I can remember 1 time inparticular when Joel showed me this interesting plant that ate insects. He loved to tell stories! It's a shame he didnt have any more time to tell us more stories, I feel I speek for everyone when i say i love grows for Joel and goes on! R.I.P joel, Love ur young cousin Brad xxx
RIP Joel. / Michael X. (Friend)
I only knew Joel for just over a year and a half, at university, but I was immediately struck by the fact that he probably the only person I have ever met who shared the exact same set of bizarre interests with me.
To say that he was strange and unique is a compliment in my book. There were times when he annoyed me intensely, but even more when I was in awe of his intelligence, and I regret not seeing more of him in his last few months.
He was a daft git, but he will be remembered well.
Peace. See you in the next life. Blessed be. x Close
Joel Russell James John Davies, my brother, lived only twenty three years, but in those years he achieved legendary status. He will be remembered for his nonconformist appearance, strong opinions and his devotion to all things odd. He gave to the world a lopsided smile and an awkward charm, that can never been forgotten. He always said “I intend to live forever”, and I know that he will live forever in our memories. We all smile, laugh, or get upset when we think of Joel, I just hope as time goes by we will get to do the first two a little more. Joel, in your life you did so much, met so many people and were enough of your own person, you lived it double! Credit to you, you lived it the way people should.
my nephew / John Richard Stubbs (uncle)
where do you start with joel,he was just a 1 off . the day he left us all our lives were changed for ever and the world became a shittier place. But as i sit here typing this i think of what joel would think of me doing this , he would take his single track logical view and say "uncle john" (while expressing himself with his hands) "i know you and all the family love and miss me but be happy now and remember the good times we all shared together And we did share some lovely happy times that i will always treasure, like when you, your grandad ,me and uncle paul used to go fishing and the laughs we had then. The Bar B Q`s(mini-infernos) with all the family out grandma`s back with you chucking more kinderling on the barbe long after the cooking had stopped just to keep the fire going. The time you nearly took my head off with that rocket round uncle pauls bon fire night bash, i had a centre parting in my hair for weeks after that!!! The week me and aunty Ceri went on holiday to france with you mum and dad josh and jack and you surprised aunty ceri with that stick insect. and when me and you went fishing in that drainage ditch and all the french kept pulling over at the side of the road shaking there heads at us in disbelief,but we did catch a fish!!!!! i couldnt believe it when i turned round and you had put a live grasshopper on your hook and it was hopping all over the lake. these are the things i will always treasure. joel you left your mark on everyone no one if they met would say "no i dont remember him" love you kid uncle john aunty ceri and cousin william Close
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