R.I.P. Vic 1924-2016
Greyrocks arrived home in the evening and it was drizzling, but all was well in the apartment and we went over to La Luna for a drink and take-away pizza. It was much busier there than anticipated, and it had been changed drastically, but that's another post on the subject of tourism levels! At four in the morning a mobile rang. Ruth got up and in a stupour grabbed the UK one, saw a missed call and dialled the number. It was the British Gas engineer who had visited our UK property the day before! Profound apologies! The call was in fact on the Spanish phone and was from Ruth's sister to say that their father had passed away. This was not unexpected, and in fact he had survived several weeks longer than thought possible given his weakness from inability to eat, Ruth had made five day visits in July and then in September and seen that he had little will to live in his condition. The funeral is on November 11th and has been planned by her other sister who lives nearby and had - with her husband - borne most of the responsibility for visits and support during his illness and move into residential care.
At her sisters' request Ruth wrote an obituary for the local paper of the town where he had worked for eighteen years..
He was a hard-working, intelligent and principled man who had enjoyed life right up until his wife's death and now hated his growing frailty. He said he was "ready to go"
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