Brief flowering

Gardening was done - much grubbing out of leaves and dead annuals. And a bit of pruning. At the end, it didn't look much different. 
And a bit of distant sad news, my ex-brother in law died. The poor guy had a tough few years latterly and had been in a coma this past week. Coincided with a message from my sister that her birth mother (my dad’s first wife) had died on Wednesday at the age of 95. The woman he foolishly (his take on it) married hastily after the war. Bit of the end of an era there, not that my sister really knew her but she was indeed some intangible link with her (and my) past.
Well, that’s a bit downbeat for a Friday which is still my favourite day of the week. Because I say so, it shall be! An lo, we had a party to attend. With ravers and screamers. Young people and old (me). A break out smoking room, and a break out bar. Reggae and Ska on the turntable. We even danced. What strange strange days.