Last View

Death certificate collected- tick
Funeral flowers paid for - tick
Death registered at the City Chambers - tick
“Tell us once” service initiated - tick

Getting there slowly but surely and the “to do” list shortens. The activity takes my mind off the vacuum in the Dower House, the empty chair, the DOOR wide open, the empty slippers, a full biscuit box and the silence of having a house with no other beating heart.

The sympathy cards pop through the letter box, but no husband to share and discuss them with. If he had known how his death would impact on others, he would have been amazed. He used to joke that I would have to rent a crowd to fill the crematorium.......we’ll see!

This blip is the view from the bus stop at the coal face which I left for the last time this morning after collecting the certificate.