Saturday 4th February, 2017                        1245

Sadly a short one.

My Mum crossed the bar at 1520 GMT, less than half an hour ago. No telegram this time, with the power of modern technology, notification instead came via Mark Zuckerberg.

She cheated death in 1972 and outlived my Dad by 34 years but has now gone to join him in the Ponderosa in the sky.

She never buried any of her kids despite my best efforts to bring that about and all in all, for a working class girl she lived an interesting life and left plenty behind.

I am sad of course and would love for there to have been a teleporter for me to have been there before she left.

Quite how much I shall mourn I know not but one thing I do know is that she would slap my chops and tell me not to be so stupid.

So, very publicly (because of course they have wifi in heaven now) I shall say thanks Mum and I shall miss you so very badly.