The mother-in-law

I have changed my mind on this article so many times, should I, shouldn't I, but I have decided to go ahead because Gwen deserves a mention.

Sadly in the early hours of Sunday 23rd January 2011, Lynette's Mum passed away, the very day that Lynette was flying back to the UK to look after her after her stay in hospital.

Earlier in the week, it was said that she could possibly be coming out of hospital at the weekend and therefore Lynette arranged the flight to be there to look after her at home.

However, during the week things took a turn for the worse and on Saturday we were told that it was unlikely that she would get through the weekend. Try as we might, we were unable to get out of Portugal back to the UK as flights are not available everyday during the winter months.

Elsie Gwendoline Middleton(Gwen) was 78 and I can honestly say that over the 40 years that I have known her, we never had a cross word. Well, thats a slight fib, there was one, when Lynette and I had locked all the doors in the house because we were doing something that we shouldn't have been doing before we were married and the cleaner couldn’t get in.
The cleaner then telephoned Gwen and bubbled us, spiteful little cleaning lady. Gwen knew exactly what was happening and was not best pleased. I've certainly had more cross words with my wife than I have had with the mother-in-law.

God Bless Mum
Love from Mr Whittaker (that's what she always called me).