Del

My brother, Del, passed away yesterday, 28th August at about 5:30am.
He had been ill with lung cancer and had more tumours in his brain. He was facing palliative care and radiotherapy and has escaped all that, including losing his hair.
He had been in hospital since July 12th and had not smoked from that day.
I will miss him, his humour, his memories...I will write more when I can.
He was only 57.
His funeral is on Tuesday...

Life's a bitch again...

I am just putting up a quick blog to apologise for the lack of information over the last few weeks. I have just been unable to write... life has got that bad.
My brother is still in hospital and I am very uncertain as to his future. I am not going to blog his details. You will have to ask me for that.
My mother is reluctantly still in the care-home, and is sort of bewildered as to what has happened to our family over the last few months.
I spend my time between visiting both brother and mother and also trying to catch up with solicitors and paperwork from my parents' house. I don't know how I ever had time to hold down a full time job, yet I would prefer that life to this. I was sort of smug about giving up teaching, but teaching was certainly more fun than this now.
I am hoping to escape back to Spalding for a short time this weekend. a shower tray to fix and a house to paint... and about 4 days to do it. Can I also fit in a dentist appointment?

I am not a very good chatter just now. But I am a bit like that in real life too. I am on an emotional knife edge just now, but at least I am aware of it.

I haven't even had the enthusiasm for taking photos... but, who knows what the future will bring...