A bit of an emergency blip today

The weather has been abysmal and I'm not in the right frame of mind to find interesting or beautiful things. Neither am I in the right frame of mind to ride a bicycle, so my lovely boss is picking me up and running me into the office and bringing me home again. Not that my output is up to its usual standard.

But I have been keeping myself busy by looking up people who were friendly twenty-plus years ago when he lived under my roof, which can take quite some detective work for a Facebook refuser. I ask them to get in touch with me, and when they do I tell them as softly as I can what has happened, allow time for the shock-waves to stop crashing and then I ask them to please add a kind note for the children to find later. So much more helpful than the “sorry for your loss” stuff that adults write to adults.