Coming To An End

MIL made it through the night.
The girls think that she is more settled and feeling less of a burden by being on 'neutral ground'.

We were able to get some shopping done this morning and when Bags turned up to collect the monsters from school I found out that they were not our responsibility at all today! Her MIL was helping out with getting the Cygnet to an eye check up and one of the other Mums was getting Squirrel to and from gymnastics.
Nobody tells me anything!

I phoned the solicitors who we think holds the MIL's up to date will to see if they would let me know who the executors are before going rummaging through the house for things like car documents and other paperwork that we need pretty quickly.
I explained that I was about to go to the hospice and asked if it was possible to pass me the information to leave it on the answer machine (with it being a Friday afternoon and it being very unlikely that MIL will make it to the next working day).
When I got back home (after office hours) there was indeed a message on the machine from the solicitor dealing with it and confirming he had the details I required ......... could I phone him!
Obviously he wants to squeeze more cash out of the estate by charging for phone calls and consultations rather than actually being helpful and smoothing things out at such a time!

So to save any (more) legal problems I took MIL's car to one of her other daughter's houses where it has been put in the garage to prevent any problems with tax / insurance etc  since nobody will be able to drive it legally as soon as MIL dies when it will then become part of her estate.

Eldest daughter has deceed that only MIL's children can visit which has really pissed off Bags (who has a very close bond with - and is recipricated by - MIL due to her helping in Bag's delivery).
I think a lot of that has to do with at least one of her daughters not being able to cope with it emotionally. It doesn't mean to say that Bags can't ..... I know she can (but she wont want to cause waves) and if No1 son was here he would refuse to accept it - waves or no waves.

Other shots of the wilting roses (lit using a small torch in a hurry) Start Here