Last Sunday evening - Mother’s Day - Di’s Mum passed away.

It was a sad loss for all who knew her, perhaps made only a little easier by the many happy memories of great times spent with her.  Di’s Mum was a lovely, gracious lady, who especially loved her grandchildren - which is why I wanted to remember her in this week’s blog with a photo of her doing one of the things she enjoyed most - playing with our daughter Liesl (photo taken back in about 1983).

Her funeral was on Tuesday, which meant a very quick trip to Sydney, returning far too soon to the overly hectic bustle of Hong Kong and the College late on Wednesday evening.  Di returned to Hong Kong last night.

Although a funeral is hardly a social occasion, it was good to catch up with many members of my extended family, and especially my own four children and two grandchildren.

It has been a very busy few days trying to catch up with all the meetings, report writing, admissions processing, marking, speech writing, and so on, that characterises the penultimate week of the academic year.  I am still running late with some of these, but I’m catching up, and I hope people will continue to be understanding and nice to me. ☺