Actually - do you remember ages ago me talking about longing for one of the teddy bears a relative of mine makes? And you doing some secret investigating into their more-than-I-could-afford costs? The teddy bear maker is Jane, Jean's daughter :-)
Hey, that's odd how mother and daughter's names are anagrams of one another, just like mine is an anagram of my Dad's!
I get the impression that Jean was just about ready to make her exit - she'd had a stroke a couple of months ago, but even before that had been quite ill for so long, and had health problems that heavily restricted her freedom of movement &c. Gerry, her husband, died three years ago, and it can't have been easy having to live without the person with whom she'd spent 60ish years of her life.
I think it'll be hard for Granny, though. Jean was the sister nearest in age to her, and they'd always been close. Certainly, for all that their elder surviving sister Beryl has always lived in the UK, I can only think of a single occasion on which I've met her (my auntie Sal's wedding in 1986), compared with quite a number of encounters with Jean.
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Actually - do you remember ages ago me talking about longing for one of the teddy bears a relative of mine makes? And you doing some secret investigating into their more-than-I-could-afford costs? The teddy bear maker is Jane, Jean's daughter :-)
Hey, that's odd how mother and daughter's names are anagrams of one another, just like mine is an anagram of my Dad's!
Hope all is well with you, missus :-D xxx
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Oh, I took forever to work out (to remember) your dad's name. I was thinking "Rice? Is he really called Rice? Surely I'd remember that!" :P
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Sorry to hear about Great Auntie Jean. RIP indeed.
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I get the impression that Jean was just about ready to make her exit - she'd had a stroke a couple of months ago, but even before that had been quite ill for so long, and had health problems that heavily restricted her freedom of movement &c. Gerry, her husband, died three years ago, and it can't have been easy having to live without the person with whom she'd spent 60ish years of her life.
I think it'll be hard for Granny, though. Jean was the sister nearest in age to her, and they'd always been close. Certainly, for all that their elder surviving sister Beryl has always lived in the UK, I can only think of a single occasion on which I've met her (my auntie Sal's wedding in 1986), compared with quite a number of encounters with Jean.
Hey ho.
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