pantglas2 I am in complete agreement with you.
My reaction is that she has lost a lot of weight over her illness and that is why she was not wearing her wedding ring in the Mothers Day picture, because it keeps slipping off.
Why shouldn't she go to a farm shop? She has been seen in other everyday food shops at various times.
Frankly I find this whole fuss about the way family photographs have been tidied up a bit around the edges quite ridiculous. We are not alking about gross manipulation of photographs to show things to be other than as they are.
Photographers have always tidied up photographs. I have a studio portrait of my sister and I taken in the 1940s when I was 4 and she was 2. At the time both my upper front teeth were missing after an accident. However, the photographer doctored the photograph so that my teeth were back in place. My mother was delighted. That is all that has happened in the photos in contention.
Talk about storm in a teacup, this photo hoohaa is more storm in a dolly's teacup.