This last se’endays has been a week of strong and very different emotions.

Last Wednesday, the birthday of a beloved nephew; he turned 12 and that’s odd for an old aunt to understand. When he was born I studied English. I still do.

Yesterday, the death of a beloved uncle - Torwald - who had been ill for quite some time, although I didn’t know just how bad it was. Maybe I’ll write some more about him later.

On Saturday, two weddings of which we could only attend one for tempo-spatial reasons. It was marvellous.

On Monday, the funeral of my mother-in-law’s husband (ex husband to be precise) whom I’d only met once, but who was a very big personality. It was sad, beautiful and moving.

And three friends of mine have had babies.