Breaking Through, Travelling On

Fortune_Smiles

Thinking of you Karma and hoping 2017 brings you health, wealth and happiness.

Fortune x

Secret_Saving_Squirrel

Yes, very good luck x

gallygirl

Thinking of you KC xxx

Cheery_Daff

Just popping in to add a sprinkling of wishes for you and your family and friends in 2017. Hope you've had a peaceful festive season x

edinburgher

All the very best for 2017 KC

beanielou

Thinking of you & yours xx

misscousinitt

Wishing you all the best for the New Year KC.

Hope you are ok - thinking of you.

(((hugs)))

MCI x

Karmacat

Hello all - what nice messages to come back to thank you. As you can all probably guess, I was away so long because she died - while I was travelling up to see her, actually. I finally got back here to the south yesterday, and I was pleased to see the house hadn't burned down or something. My sister was here briefly, actually, to collect ID papers for me, but that was way back on 18th December, I've been away all but five weeks.

We had all the officialdom that everyone suffers through after a death, with some added twists - registering (the computer was down, oh joy), finding a funeral date (the crematorium we use for family is partially closed, we were desperate to hold the funeral before Christmas and *not* on family birthdays). A power-mad solicitor demanding copies of all sorts of things before they'd give us the Will. A funeral director who misspelt the word "funeral". That sort of thing.

The icing on the cake, of particular relevance on the MSE forum, was the policy of the Halifax Bank Bereavement Unit. The staff were fine - but the policy! Omigod, I nearly had a heart attack. They were the only ones who wanted to know where the Executor lived (me, in this case) and then they wanted to do a multiple choice quiz about my credit file, supplied to them by Experian. I'm not kidding, either. I was nearly scuppered by my change of utilities supplier last month, and it's sheer luck that I "passed". I moved away from the Halifax years ago, and this experience made me remember why.

Anyway, it all went as well as these things ever go, in the end. And now, since my dad died a while ago, the household needs to be dismantled ... it's very odd, and very sad. 95% of that is still to be done.

Karmacat

Two items on the plus side:

- I went to see Fantastic Beasts with my brother and his wife on New Year's Eve.

- he drove me round some of the "ancestral homes" in Liverpool a few days later. Aiiieeeeeeeeeeee .... they were solid working class houses in solid working class areas in those days. Nowadays, they're in areas where it wasn't really safe to walk as strangers even in twos during the day, let alone at night. It was a bit of an eye-opener. Still a plus to see the houses, though.

And an ocean going tug coming in on the high tide, right by the bank. I like tugs, got a great view of this one :j:j:j

Fortune_Smiles

I am so sorry to hear your news Karma. I know there's nothing I can say to help but I'm thinking of you and am here to add my support and advice if you'd find it helpful.

Fortune x