fionaistravelling

Happy New Year 2020... and an account of a seismic 2019 Dear friends Thanks to any of you who have sent me a Christmas card – I love getting them, but have great difficulty sending them  - so here’s my Christmas card equivalent; a Happy New Year letter. The main thing about 2019 is that our wonderful, kind, well organised, vibrant, buoyant, funny, and universally loved mum died in October, at the age of 93. I was in Poland when she died – which says a lot about her. We knew she was ill, but she was absolutely happy for us to travel and do whatever we wanted to do – as long as we facetimed her every day. (She LOVED her Ipad, was frantic once when I took her charger away by mistake, couldn’t wait till I could get the charger back to her the next day, so she went into town to buy a new one that same day…) So many people came to the funeral and the prayers in the week after the funeral – some, people we’d known as children, making the journey from London or Manchester