@CarlBovisNature You'll hate me. I saw a wryneck on my neighbour's lawn, scoffing ants. I remarked that it was an odd-looking starling. They agreed, got out the bird book. Hmm, a wryneck, never heard of it, anyway, another biscuit? Had no idea it was special!
@RobbieRinder I am sorry for your loss. Speak his name often - for as a wise man called Terry once wrote, a man is not dead while his name is still spoken.
@peachtard Wish I could have done! But baby boy had an undiagnosed tongue tie and couldn't feed properly. So being a dutiful first time mum, I pumped every 4 hours for 12 sodding weeks so he could be bottle fed with breastmilk. Madness, now I look back on it.
@JoolsJuevans Both my maternal grandparents killed themselves (separately) years before I was born. But the shadow was over my whole childhood due to the effect on my mother.