Thank you all for your kindness. My Dad doesn’t know yet, as telephone communication is nearly impossible and I can’t travel till tomorrow. His cousin will go round in the morning to tell him and be with him until I get there. He is going to take it hard I think, even though we have been expecting it, it’s still much more of a shock than I thought it would be, now it’s actually happened.
I have had to phone my mother‘s four siblings this evening, that was hard . They are all upset too, of course, she was their big sister.