First let me say that all your supportive and compassionate comments at this sad time for our family have moved me more deeply than I can say, but they are greatly appreciated, I can assure you. As you can imagine, things are … well, to use the word ‘disrupted’ is a gross understatement; ‘shattered’ would be more like it. The news came as a bolt from the blue, from which I suspect that it will take a long time to recover; I am hardly a stranger to deaths in the family, so I guess I’m by way of... Sign in to see full entry.