I’ve been MIA because life has been a lot more about the Very Much Alive Mum than the Dead Dad recently, and that’s exactly how he would have wanted it. The VMAM (sounds like a medical procedure, doesn’t it?) is in hospital recovering from surgery. Anyone who knows her will be unsurprised to learn that [...]
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