You knew Isla71 that is exactly what he would have loved, especially as a mechanical engineer.
Is this elder abuse?…. What can I do?
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Not things that I see but more objects that remind me of people that I’ve lost. When I make green tea I remember my friend who taught Chinese pupils and told me to use water not quite boiling. Also when I use the mug I bought when she took me to Battle. I bought an Oreck vacuum cleaner decades ago. A friend of my daughters saw it and said jokingly ‘that’s a very modern looking vacuum 
’. He died last year and whenever I see it I think of him and I get that awful empty feeling. I hadn’t seen him since my daughter left school so, to me, he will always be 17.
Rozzy here is the Hardy poem. I read it recently.
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