Sunset from Hill House, Mount Helen. February 2024

Sunday, August 12, 2018

Orphaned

Not really orphaned. I still have both parents.  Jim and I are, in fact, heading off this morning to have lunch with them.

But I no longer have any living aunts or uncles.  I once had lots. The last aunt, Joan, faded gently away at the end of the week after living with dementia for several years.

This is one of my favourite photos of her, taken many years ago when there was an English Teddy Bear Company shop opposite the colleges in Cambridge




She walked my feet off that day!

Vale, dear Joan. I do so hope that Peter was waiting for you at the Pearly Gates with a stiff G&T in hand.

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