This story – Remembering Florence – is adapted from the short talk that I gave about her life at her funeral. It was quite hard to put it together, not least because there was so much that I wanted to mention about her life and I had about eight minutes to tell the story. So, …
When Florence, my mother aged 105 years was first admitted into hospital in July 2019 she had been diagnosed as having two small fractures in the lower half of her left leg and was fitted with a sizeable leg plaster. She spent 10 days or so on the fracture ward and was then discharged on …
In the middle of October, nearly six months ago, my mother Florence died aged 105 years. It was not ‘somewhere towards the end’ as Diana Athill calls it in her wonderful book of that name but right at the end. I did not expect to be hit very hard as I had been anticipating it …