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When she was diagnosed, Christine had told me she would understand if I wanted to leave. I told her she had promised to be together in sickness and health and I wasn't letting her off that vow. BTW One in seven women diagnosed with breast cancer experience a marriage breakdown. I wondered at a...

Grief on this scale is a very lifechanging experience with unexpected turns in wind direction through completely uncharted waters. I'm trying to make the most of the energy without ripping the sails and have managed to avoid the worst of the rocks so far. A reef looms ahead but I've charted it...

I think that is case with any of the romantic languages. Eso Beso originally written in English by Jack and Noel Sherman and first performed by Paul Anka's Here is Gloria Lasso's version. She is Spanish as is the term Eso Beso but the song sounds like French to me. Some of the lines, especially...

You had the presence of mind to stop and reevaluate. So many don't and pay the price. At these times it is so important to get in touch again with the things that made you fall in love in the first place. And then to nourish and grow as a couple as well as individuals. There are three entities...

I didn't have AI to resort to when I investigated while learning Spanish in 1994. Rules always have exceptions (excepciónes). Also I said backwards because it was Spanish words that came to English so those with "cion" endings are prevalent in English but not so much the reverse.

I went though that anguish about ten years ago of Christine having a lung cancer scare. It turned out that the shadow on the chest x-ray was not a cancer. In fact we never found out what it was. The specialist literally cried on her shoulder when he told her how rare it was for him to give...

English spelling is so convoluted because it adopted words from so many languages. A lot of French words came through the Norman invasion. The French words for culinary dishes are used for haut cuisine while the original words the English persisted for the animals. Cow vs boeuf, pig vs porc etc...

Everyone I have spoken to, including the funeral director, says they have been to some good celebrations of life but this one was on another plain. Some have been confused by their emotions, guilt for feeling so uplifted or it had a life changing effect on them where they realised they could be...

You can use SQL to write dynamic SQL. I've done this where I kept all the information about temp tables I needed to generate and query in another table. The same thing would be possible by querying the system tables for information about the user tables you are working with. I've only taken a...

The quote continues, "And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man." A friend and I painted this on the door of our delipidated fridge in a vegetarian share house during my university days in 1978. "To thine own self be true. Thou canst not then be false to...

My all time favourite, attributed to playwright Eugene Ionesco is: "Only the ephemeral is of any lasting value."

My father told me that one in the 1970s too, adding "and you will only be fooled some of the time".

We celebrated Christine's life on Thursday and everyone there was in awe of the experience, saying they felt amazingly uplifted. I came home in a state of euphoria that continued through Friday and has not yet entirely passed. I presented a 25 minute eulogy, which was described by some as a...

On Friday, with our family close by, I kissed my wife the last goodbye. She spontaneously sang "The Long and Winding Road", accompanied on the verse I could remember the words to, then finishing it solo with her beautiful voice. Then she was gone. The doctor and nurse in attendance both told us...

Try importing all the objects into a new database then add the new control.