I started this blog as therapy to help me manage the overwhelming grief of losing David. Bringing to mind the happy memories and sharing them has helped me - and some people have been kind enough to say they enjoy reading them. If I'm not writing often, it's because I haven't felt the need, although I do plan to keep posting, in my erratic, rambling fashion. The past few weeks haven't been easy, though, and this time I'm not writing much about happy memories but more about what's been going on lately (normal service will be resumed next time). I'm not a royalist by any means (although I do have an extensive knowledge of the history of the royal family, courtesy of Dr Lucy Worsley, historical documentaries and The Crown ) but I felt for the Queen at Prince Phillip's funeral. She looked so lonely and frail. It brought back the way I felt in the days immediately following David's death, when the grief was very, very raw and it did upset me. ...