Just Chilling Out!
It has been a while since my last update on 21st December, posted just after I flew to UK for what was planned to be a two-week catch up with my parents, sister’s family and some friends in London. My father had gone back into hospital some three weeks before I flew over, and on seeing him I cancelled the London plans in order to have more time to visit him while also giving morale support to my Mother. Dad passed away on the 29th December. I had watched from afar along with annual visits, how a once so very capable man had progressively deteriorated over his last five years to a point where in his last two he had no real quality of life. While inevitably his departure leaves a big gap, particularly for my Mother after 58 years of marriage, he was c learly in a lot of distress with his various ailments. Whatever one’s religious convictions, he is now at long last free of his suffering and at rest in a better place. Inevitably my stay in UK became extended and I finally flew...