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OOOOOhhhh Happy birthday Cynths !!

Sounds like a memorable one !!! :-D :-D :-D

Glad everyone is O,K, ! - I will come and help you with the washing up !

Dea Xxx

All was going well.


Rood cards.


Nice prezzies.


OH took me out for coffee to celebrate.


Gently pottering around.


Family coming round for Chinese.


Daughter arrives first in a taxi.


Bends to get my prezzie out of the back seat.


Driver thought she had gone and drives off.


Over her feet!


She falls to ground but gets up quickly.


Still able to walk.


Driver horrified.


I take her to A & E.


No broken bones thank goodness - bruising and soreness but nothing serious.


Family arrive.


Son and d-in-l both on painkillers for various ailments.


Nice meal and company.


They all took their ailments home with them.....


and left me to do the washing up :-S :-S



Happy birthday mum!!

Me too Cynths !! - What happenened in your day ??

Dea Xxx

Why?

Well! That was a day and a half :-S

Thank you Jonesey!

That's exactly what was hoping you would know


I'll let her know


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Sylvia,

Once the will (If there was one) has been proven or probate has been granted I do not think that any minimum time limit for obtaining a copy of the grant would apply. I would suggest that she contact the Probate registry and asks them to conduct a search. The details of how to do that appear on this link:

www.justice.gov.uk/guidance/courts-and-tribunals/courts/probate/family-history.htm

Jonesey ............



are you still around??


I have a question that you may be able to answer, or point me where to go.

An overseas member that I know reasonably well sent a pm yesterday asking if I can find a way for her to do the following


It's a bit of a tricky private thing, but she did not want to post the question on line because she felt she could not cope with a flood of answers. She has also tried looking on line but couldn't find any site that gave her help.

Now I'm turning to you!


Her 99 year old uncle died in Kent, England, last November. Someone has sent her the death certificate and she is now wondering about how to get a copy of the will

Obviously, probate has to be proven first.



Do you happen to know anything at all about when or where a copy of the will can be applied for?

Or, alternatively, direct me to where I could find out the information for her.



Many thanks



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Jonesey ......


forgot to say ........... I'm not surprised that your wife's step-father retained the ability to play the piano.


The very long time memory is the last to go. Piano playing would be deeply ingrained in his memory ................ and it would also have been something that he enjoyed very much and found a lot of pleasure in.




s
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Hi


Gins ............... yes, he has dementia/Alzeimer's

This has all happened very quickly .............. it was just last October that his bro-in-law ( a retired doctor) spotted that there were changes and said "take him to the doctor".

He is on medication, which is supposed to help keep it at bay. One does wonder what he would be like if he were not on that??


Jonesey ................ it is very sad to watch it all happen.

He is/was a very intelligent man, rated one of the top 10 in North America in his profession when in his 30s, director of 3 major botanic gardens in North America in his 50s and 60s, etc etc.

The other sad thing is that this couple only married wen they were around 50, both for the first time. They, of course, don't have children ....... and thus she also has no experience in dealing with the child who has to be constantly reminded to do something or who constantly asks questions that have been answered.

Her brother is about 85 or 86, and lives way down south. So all their support has to be from friends. He's fully functional at the moment, can carry out a comprehensive and quite complicated conversations ...........although his short term memory is extremely poor. His idea of time has been the first real thing to go.

He cannot for example do a simple test for the psychiatrist .......... put the numbers in the correct place on a clock face.

If he wakes up, it is time to get up, even if he has only been asleep for a couple of hours and it is pitch black outside. He doesn't look at the clock, or if he does, it doesn't make sense.

That episode was the first example of no sense of place.



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It is very sad when people who have been so sharp mentally during their lives suffer from dementia. My wife's step father began to suffer from it about 5 years before he died aged 90. We would get phone calls at all hours of the night often asking if we knew where his wife (M.I.L.) was. She had in fact died some years earlier. He also took to going walkabout but fortunately never came to much harm. Eventually he had to go into a care home. He had been a professional pianist and entertainer all his adult life and surprisingly although he lost a lot of his faculties before he died his ability to play the piano was not one of them.

I take it he has some kind of dementia Sylvs....Corrie has just carried a story line on that and it was a relatively young woman

Such a sad disease to have and for those who care for them.

I didn't tell you about our friends on Sunday, did I?

He was just a little bit slower than 2 months ago, having to dig around for the word or name he wanted for example, but was otherwise reasonably well.

However, he has now been forbidden to drive as he failed a test every one in the Province has to take when they turn 80. There has, in fact, been a lot of controversy about this test ........... it is largely computer-based and tests reflexes, etc............... rather like doing one of those computer games.

So many older people do not use computers, or are not computer literate OR game literate, so they think it very unfair for there to be no alternate. Of course ......... the powers-that-be know better.


He recently went walkabout late one evening. He woke up after going to bed, got dressed even though it was pitch dark, and left the house. They don't have street lights in their rural area. He ended up at a neighbour's, where he knocked on the window of a room where there was a light on. Fortunately, it was someone they know pretty well. BUT our friend did not recognise the other man or know his name....... just knew he needed help.

Meanwhile, his wife had woken up and was going frantic trying to find him.

Imagine if he had done that in the car :-0

However, that neighbour is now another who knows the problem, and has told the wife to phone ANYTIME. So, another bit of support for her.



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Decided I'm not going to the President's Reception this evening

my back's a bit sore, and we are going away overnight Friday to Saturday ......... and I'd rather be good for that.

OH has to attend a meeting in Whistler ............. where the outdoor events for the Winter Olympics were held 2 years ago. The meeting will only take about 1 hour!

It's actually only a 2-3 hour drive from here ................. it's like driving up the side of a fjord, so gorgeous scenery.





Which reminds me ..................... can someone do the Saturday eateries, please??




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hi all
xxx



cloudy and showers ............ I'd say "heavy showers" from what I heard falling on the skylight just before I got up!


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Eggy bread-serious comfort food.

Yesterday was too hot for home visits.

The air con in the car has broken so every time we got back into the car we cooked.

We were given water at every visit though.

That is nasty Linda.

message needed please Cynthia

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.page/board/living_relatives/thread/1300308

Good morning all...........eggy bread should sustain me for a while I think. Thanks Sylvs.


Slightly cloudier today by the looks of things.


That sounds really painful Linda, hope he feels better soon.


Going to get OH to take me out to coffee methinks....



See you later ~~~~~

Good morning all !

Some mushroom quiche for me today please with those lovely home-fried garlicky potatoes, topped with lots of bacon.

Thank you Sylvia - delicious as always <3 <3

See you all later,

Dea Xxx

a very tragic life


RIP

Mornin all

First dibs on breaky.............Veggie Wrap please Sylvs....thank you :-D


Just been reading the news online and came accross..........what a terrible tragic life for the poor man :-(

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/28052012/58/tragic-tapia-found-dead-45.html