Tears before breakfast

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Date: 03 February 2003 12:38:00

Got up on Sunday morning to the news of the loss of the space shuttle Columbia. First born and I were up - trying to explain to her what had happened.

Life goes on. On Sunday afternoon, we went to visit wife's mother, who is staying for a few days in an old folk's home. She fell the previous week-end. There is a particular problem. She doesn't tidy her own home, at all. Increasingly, of course, she is unable to, but the wife tells me that she has never done so. What can we do? I left the wife and children in the old folk's home, with grandma, while I drove to her house to collect some items which she required. The house was, to echo her doctor, "in its usual state".