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This afternoon was the time to say goodbye to Marjorie or Marj as she was always known. I hadn't seen her in the past four years - during which time she spiralled deep down into the pit of dementia. She was eighty four years old. Her best friend Thelma lives two doors away from us and it was through her that I first got to know Marj. Thelma also kept me informed about her decline.  Marj had a wicked sense of humour and I had a  nice chinwag with her whenever we met. We seemed to connect. Though she gave out commonsensical wisdom, there was also nonsensical silliness. Marj never had children though she was married for almost thirty years - up until her divorce in the late eighties. She worked in the steel industry but not around furnaces and molten steel - safely behind the scenes in administration. She loved to travel and had been to many far-flung places including Mexico, Australia and the Caribbean. Round about 2010, I noticed that she had developed an involuntary tic ...

 By the time my little bathroom man was talking about spot lights, I was almost beside myself with excitement. Looking at heated towel rails and I was ( as Miriam Margolyes said on the Graham Norton show) Creaming in my knickers. The excitement was catching and Dorothy galloped upstairs and peed on the hall carpet. I am so excited that at the grand old age of 59 , I’m getting my first bespoke and totally desirable bathroom. Work starts in around 6 weeks. He’s looking at sorting out the office too but was confused when I referred to it being in the west wing It was dusk when the dogs and I walked my little man back to his car and ambling back down the lane I looked at my cottage with it’s interior all warm with the glow of lamplight and fire and I felt proud and happy. The fairy lights , my sister hung above the patio , glinted cheerfully and the newly tidied garden looked ordered and charming as a newly washed and buffed  Bluebell stood guard behind. I am so h...

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I’m waiting for my sister to arrive to sort the garden out. It’s a beautiful spring day. I’m also resting my forearm over a proper coffee . I’ve just made my first pat of butter Korean spiced, and salted and ………small…..but perky. It tastes bloody lovely  My little bathroom man comes later…… from Going Gently https://ift.tt/bzic3WH