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