Witty Rejoinder said:

roughbarked said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

Why wouldn’t they?

i never see them since mum died.

Why not?

They are in their own worlds. When mum was dying, I thanked my brother’s wife for coming. She said, “no. Thank you for looking after her for the last 27 years”. Brother and sister would come back at Christmas or whenever and dump their kids on her and go socialise with their sporty friends. Sister in law did the best she could while she was here. Our family was split up when we we very young. Father had an incident with the crank handle of a tractor that backfired and messed up his internals.
He had is intestines out on the table being untangled on the same day my younger sister was born. It was a new thing at the time and apparently he was the first person in the world to survive such an operation. He was just lucky that Australia’s #1 surgeon was the fly in fly out bloke on the day. He spent so much time in hospitals with hernias and had 19 major operations.We were all farmed out to different relatives as youngsters and never really formed a bond.