Relationships

I'd already decided I wasn't going to make it into work today, and that I was going to work at home (because of the stiffness and soreness issues encountered in the last few days which several people had strongly suggested were the product of "doing too much"). I doubled down on that decision after my sister phoned first thing to give me the bad news that Dad had died during the night. I passed the news on to a couple of people, including of course L. Then I dug out some old photos of L and his grandpa (interesting complements to the ones that Norfolkdoc has taken recently), and after consulting with L who is in South Korea having a wee holiday to take advantage of being off work for Chinese New Year, decided to blip this one. It was taken in Nottingham, somewhere between autumn 1993 and summer 1995. I would suggest that it would be towards the earlier part of that window, looking at the age of L on here.

So sorry it's not quite a blip within the rules, but I think people regard that as ok for particular reasons. L and his Grandpa had a lovely relationship - probably rather better than I did with my Dad. So it's good to reflect that in this picture.

It's been a difficult few days, but especially for norfolkdoc, especially in view of her impending operation. But one good thing to come out of this is that I'm now going to be in a position to give her a tiny bit of help around the time of her operation.

I've dug out another family photo, which I reckon is from summer 1972.