And another one!

Maybe it's as you get older and nearer to the point yourself that deaths have more effect on you. Last night we heard that one of Jill's relations had died after a stroke . I'd never met the 77 year old and Jill only remembers him from her teenage years, but somehow it gets more personal than, say , the death of Michael Jackson or Farrah Fawcett, with all due respect to them, it's not family. No matter how extended, it's not 'whanau', to use a very useful Maori word.