Thank you to everyone for the kind regards! They really mean/meant a lot (not just this week but throughout this WHOLE process).
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We got the chance to sit and watch a movie together for a change...a lovely little film that my Aunt Bette recommended to me on Netflix: "Keeping Mum". It starred Maggie Smith, Kristen Scott Thomas and Rowan Atkinson (in a comedic but much more straight than he usually gets cast role)...very charming, with a naughty and dark sense of humour throughout.