2017 Done and Dusted

• Ariege,

• Catalunya

• Kalymnos,

• Orgon,

• Orpierre,

• Briançon,

• Aussois,

• Chamonix,

• Sheffield(!)

• Ötztal,

• Pitztal,

• Sheffield(!)

• Ariege

• Kalymnos,

• Leonidio,

• Kyparissi,

• Nafplio,

• Kalymnos,

• Catterick for my father's funeral

• Kalymnos

• Ariege

 .... and probably a place or two I forgot

Goodbye Pops

Funeral programme

The wedding - same church 68 years earlier.

The journey home went off as easy as it could have and of course the funeral was as sad and traumatic as everyone expected - it is hard saying goodbye after so long.
Dad's 93 years more that a fair innings as many have pointed out, and to go as quickly as he did, has to be a blessing.
Two of my sister's children (in their 40s!) gave very moving eulogies about how Tom acted as a granddad to their kids - their own father, George Ramsey had died 20 years earlier.
Of course the worry if now for my mum, married 68 years and suddenly on her own - though we know she is made of steely stuff.