We have arrived in Ullapool this evening after a very smooth journey of 3 hours and 40 minutes, due to no roadworks and hardly any traffic. We had celebratory fish suppers (a veggie burger supper for me) and finished watching the currently extremely popular and strangely compelling South Korean series Squid Game.
Sadly we attended two funerals over the past week, both at the Linn. The first was Iris, mum of Gordon King. She had reached the grand age of 94, and had a full and active life. She used to come on some of the hill-walking weekends with the club and was good company. I think that the saddest thing about the funerals of very elderly people is seeing the grief of their family; it’s still very sad to lose a parent no matter how old you are, although as Gordon’s brother said, “I’m crying today but Mum had such a great life.”
The other funeral, this afternoon, was of someone who died too young, my friend Doreen. She would have been so proud of her much-loved son Charlie, who made a very moving speech about her, as did her brother and her husband Jim. Doreen had such an interesting life and although I knew about a lot of it, I didn’t know about the teaching work she did in Lesotho in her twenties. As well as being a beekeeper, Doreen was a keen gardener, and Charlie gave us all boxes of wildflower seeds to plant in her memory.
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