Still lying low...

Me and Dennis and a sock...

i wanted just to mark this moment.

Very sadly our neighbour died at the beginning of last week. She was due to leave hospital but then came the realisation that something was not right. She had somehow - because of a weakened immune system - succumbed to hospital acquired pneumonia. We can hardly believe it. She had such dignity and such kindness and was always so gracious. When we realise she will not be coming home which comes upon us as suddenly as a rain storm, we feel her loss. And yet she is still there- in the fabric of the house and her things. For someone hardly able to move in her final years she was as vivid as a stained glass window, all colour, imagination and light. A special kind of ordinary life: though she'd hear of no such thing. May she rest in peace.