A very scary Halloween
Sunday we went to see the MiL. Nothing unusual about this. We put her recycling out and emptied the condenser in her tumble dryer. I took a look around the garden where this week her gardener had shredded a load of branches and cleared a good space up. She was in relatively good form. Feeling a little better physically than she has of late but saying the Government ‘be prepared’ thing was making her a little anxious. This is primarily since whenever she looks at her phone or tablet something flashes up (that isn’t water or tinned food) suggesting she needs to buy it to ‘be prepared’. As with most of us she is not sure what she is supposed to be preparing for exactly. Leaving that to one side, however, she then let slip that the guy who came to collect the shredder, from the hire company, collapsed on the lawn, doubled up in agony, having a heart attack. Tha...