[QUOTE 3177410, member: 76"]I was waiting at the lights in Churchill and an old chap out walking his dog was chatting to another old boy who had pulled over in his car, the two were clearly old friends who hadn't seen each other in a while, for best effect, read this with a really broad Somerset accent...............
"Ow's yer mum and dad then, they must be getting on a bit now?"
"Oh yeah, nearly 90 the pair of them, but they are fine, fine, they're both fine, except me mam, she died just after Easter"
Then the lights changed and my snapshot into their lives was over. How marvellous to describe your dead parent as 'fine'[/QUOTE]
We used to know a very elderly couple, and when the husband died (age 96), his wife (who must have been about 94 at the time) still talked about him as if he was still there for quite a long time afterwards (they had been married practically since Noah was a boy!
).
She lived until she was 99.