We said goodbye

 

November is always a fairly iron-grey month for me, quite without our last parent dying. But showing up here (a few days late for November tbh!) is a discipline that I m mindful to continue. If only because looking back on matters might make a bit of sense later. Maybe.

For reasons too complicated to go into here, our parent died in North East Scotland, their mortal remains were cremated in East Anglia and the ashes will be interred in Cumbria, alongside their spouse and overlooking the Lune Valley. 

While in East Anglia, we took the opportunity of catching up with key people, exploring remembered and half remembered places and discovering new delights along the roads we travelled along. But have returned to a home strewn with the debris of a parental move/ death / funeral.....and .....an upcoming visit of offspring and two minor whirlwinds! I foresee interesting times, the more so as our snug is still without part of its ceiling + there is clutter of a DIY variety rapidly multiplying in there.

We have rain, lots of it. We also have power though, for which I give deep and steady thanks. Many do not and I really don't know how they are coping. Miserable, utterly.