So the big day has arrived. Madame is 80 today. A real story of survival given that she was born prematurely weighing less than a kilogram during an air raid. She has also survived submarine attacks in the Irish Sea, terrorist attacks in Paris, the building of the wall while she was in Berlin, a car crash in Surrey, a hurricane in the Bahamas, an encounter with a bear in the Rockies, mugging in Madrid, a fall in the Pyrenees, a major operation in which part of her liver was removed and a little matter of living with me for 58 years.
Since the lockdown has stymied most of the options for celebrating it, the virtual world has come into its own with a three-day video conference with the grandchildren and their parents this morning. But the real winner was that techno-savvy grandson has set her up with her own website thus fulfilling her wish to go somewhere she's never been before.
www.micheletallack.co.uk if anyone is interested.
