Sorry about all the hard stuff, Beryl. And sympathies on the estate settlement, we’re in a protracted effort to settle all three but the delays in dealing with submission are about 5 months long and my parents need done in sequence. Sigh. Still, many people have it much worse then us. Three loving, much loved, good parents who are also real friends is great good fortune, and we were very lucky to have them all, well and living independently, until we ourselves had passed 60.
Best wishes to all of you moving house. Congratulations Peter on the new job. Commiserations Jenny on the loss of your parents and FIL.
Small catch up Things with me have been a bit fraught. Daryl’s mother died last October and we’re waiting for her modest estate to be finalised. It’s been complicated because, apart from her 3 children, she included her 2 step daughters in the will and they are both in care suffering from dementia.?
My brother who lives about 1.5 hours drive north of me is suffering horrible medical problems. He has been diagnosed with a rare and aggressive type of skin cancer called Merkel cell carcinoma & also has a growth on a kidney. He’s having chemotherapy once a week and radiation 5 times a week. It’s gruelling for him. He’s only just turned 70, not much of a birthday.
We, thankfully, are both well & enjoying life. In October we are flying off to Perth in Western Australia and returning on the trans continental train, the Indian Pacific. Still not ready to venture overseas. I’ve got a friends who are in France at the moment & have to rearrange their trip after getting covid and having to isolate in a hotel room in Bordeaux. Neither of them is seriously ill.
