Communications...

Today was a day of phone calls one way or another. The landlord of next doors property rang us up this morning to see if we had heard anything about Ken.We hadn't actually for quite a while now, and VT had the number of his sisterso he said he would ring her. Answer phone to that number, so left that as it was. Jane rang at lunchtime full of woes..she had applied for Salford University and has been rejected for there, and she is having a lot of trouble with her shoulder too. She has been signed off for another two months, and is waiting for her solicitor to get moving.Not a happy bunny at the momernt.
Then a bit later the doorbell rang and it was the coalman with our delivery. 4 bags @ £70. Fit coalman..about 6ft tall and humping coqal around like they were bags of feathers.
Then a bit later after that, Ken's sister rang in response to the answerphone message. Very sad news about him..she said he had passed away on Sunday 16th of January. His wife will be devastated they were a really close couple and lovely with each other. Nice family too a grown up boy and girl, both of whom are in London. What a shame...he was a really nice man, and it seemed so sudden really, only a few months but cancer is like that. Very unforgiving.
VT has been in to sort the cat out, and he has sorted a few things from their fridge that had gone off. Their Christmas things are still up. but I think that one of his relatives will help sort that out. She won't want to be doing that. We are really quite shocked, he was using VT's ladders to go up on the roof only a few weeks before Christmas when their aerial had come down. Only 55 too, no age really.

R.I.P.Ken Blundell.

Tonight we are having:
Steak style and mushroom pies
Mushroom gravy
Carrots and beans
Baked baby potatoes.