It's been a funny old couple of weeks - funny in the strange sense - certainly not in the amusing sense.
My mum fell and broke her hip on the 1st October. After complications - basically due to her previous poor health - she died on the 11th - she was 63 years old.... sad :o(
Mum had health problems as a result of enjoying her life up until those excesses came back to bite her firmly on the bottom. She smoked, she drank, she enjoyed herself. The smoking led to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, it was that which led from a simple accident to her body not being able to cope with the operation on her hip.
She was great my Mum, loved her to bits, still do and lots of people who attended her funeral yesterday said the same thing to me. She was a Mum to me and my brother, and Grandma to her six grandchildren, and also a friend to many.
I miss you Mum and I hope you're having a nice cool glass of Pinot Grigio with your feet up somewhere - rest easy.
