100 days – Day 11
100 days – Day 11
Looking in a drawer today for something, I found this: Helen’s Report Card from her last year in Primary School.
She did rather well! Um, except for Maths; she always said that she was hopeless at it, but I didn’t think THAT bad!
Her father was a wizz – a human computer. When my mother-in-law was out with him buying fabric or, say, vegetables, she would simply turn to him and ask “this is £X per square yard, and I need 5 and three quarters of it, how much would it be?” or “these bananas are £Y for a dozen, but I only want 7, how much is that?” The answer would be almost instantaneous.
I too can’t count very well, but one thing is sure I could count on my beloved late wife, Helen Strachan (nee Walker) to be my only true soul mate for 40 years. RIP
Tags: 100 days, Buckinghamshire, cost of goods, Helen Strachan, Helen Walker, human computer, mathematics, School Report Card, Stoke Mandeville, Stoke Mandeville Primary School
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An ordained Church of Scotland Minister since 1974. Started off in Doune which is near Stirling, before moving to Trinidad for four years; on my return to Scotland, I was a rural minister in Perthshire and then was asked to become Minister at St.Michael's Inveresk where I spent eleven happy years. A short ministry in Guernsey followed and since 1999, I was a full time healthcare Chaplain in the town of Dumfries in SW Scotland, retiring from that post in December 2012. I started this blog on 6 May 2012, soon after my wife, Helen, was diagnosed with secondary cancer - it was a sort of diversion and still is, following her death on 16 June. I hope it shows that there is a lighter side to religion, that it's not gloom and doom and that we can sometimes laugh at ourselves in a self-effacing way. Some posts are, however, I hope provoking and food for thought.Archives
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