BOGGLING OR NOT - IT DOES GET SORTED

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BOGGLING OR NOT - IT DOES GET SORTED

by menhir @ 18 Apr. 2008 – 22:16:58

What a muddle of thoughts I have experienced this week. Par for the current course of events I suppose. I never thought I would make sense of my 'to do' list, let alone get the order right. I even thought I wouldn't get through it.

"You know," someone said, "at times like these," (bereavement he meant) "you feel its all a great mess that can't get sorted. It does you know." Nice man. I plodded on.

Today, I saw that Edinburgh University Medical School was left £2 million, (just part of a range of academic bequests from one estate) sixty years after the donor had died. The thought of dealing with the affairs of an estate for that length of time - a lifetime - made my mind boggle.
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- deleted user (Visitor)
- http://menomamauk.blog.co.uk
- 19 Apr. 2008 @ 01:48:36
That would make my mind boggle as well.

Are you okay?

Hugs
- - menhir
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  - 26 Apr. 2008 @ 21:58:31
  Hi RDW,
  
  Thanks for your thoughts. I guess I'll be okay, when I begin to feel what 'rest' really feels like.
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- MrFlighty
- 19 Apr. 2008 @ 07:56:29
Well it gave you something to bloggle about!
Take care, and have a good weekend! xx
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  - 26 Apr. 2008 @ 21:59:37
  That's is certainly one perspective on the deliverance up of estates!
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- PurpleDragon
- 19 Apr. 2008 @ 19:25:27
Bereavement is an awful thing to endure. I'm thinking of you.
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  - 26 Apr. 2008 @ 22:00:23
  Thanks PD, I appreciate your thoughts.
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- tylluanpenry
- 19 Apr. 2008 @ 22:33:44
Take everything just one step at a time. Thinking of you, *hugs*
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  - 26 Apr. 2008 @ 22:01:45
  Hello Tylluan,
  
  Funnily enough, I said almost the exact thing to someone yesterday. It is easier said than done though, sometimes.
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- hayden (Visitor)
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- 20 Apr. 2008 @ 20:17:06
oh dear, I'm afraid I've missed something critical. So sorry to hear you are bereaved. Please do take good care of yourself.
- - menhir
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  - 26 Apr. 2008 @ 22:02:54
  Hello,
  
  Thanks for calling by and thanks also for your kind thoughts.
  
  M x
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- EllieGant
- 25 Apr. 2008 @ 16:39:00
Hopefully things will be resolved a bit quicker than that! A day at a time .... take care x
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  - 26 Apr. 2008 @ 22:08:43
  Ellie,
  
  Things would have to be sorted quicker than 60 years, in my case. I don't have that long left on this earth. Not unless I break all records.
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- skip2468
- 26 Apr. 2008 @ 21:57:21
Time sorts out most happenings.
- - menhir
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  - 26 Apr. 2008 @ 22:10:24
  It certainly does, Skip, stage posts, I suppose.
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- loiswakeman
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- 28 Apr. 2008 @ 14:09:39
One of the horrible things of modern life is that, at a time when you should be able to give yourself time to grieve - or stand out in the street wailing as they do in some countries - instead, you have to fill your head with numbingly grey details of paperwork and forms.

I wish you the strength to come out the other side, and the time to grieve at your own pace.
- - menhir
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  - 28 Apr. 2008 @ 14:38:18
  Lois, your words mean a lot to me and are so apt. The admin is horrible and gets muddled sometimes in the grey fuzz of emotions that dart all over the place. It can create moments of displaced, inappropriate frustration and anger.
  
  Thanks for your understanding and kind wishes.
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- skip2468
- 28 Apr. 2008 @ 23:17:46
Yes, as our age increases our bereavements surely do the same as our aged relations and friends part this mortal world.

Unfortunately that is something that we cannot avoid as much as we would like to.
- - menhir
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  - 28 Apr. 2008 @ 23:30:00
  Never a truer word, Skip.
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    - 29 Apr. 2008 @ 19:21:24
    All is acceptable till one begins to think, 'my turn is getting closer every day' lol'
    - - menhir
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      - 29 Apr. 2008 @ 20:00:25
      We talk about 'being over the hill' I think 'the other side of the mountain' would be nearer the mark.
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    - 29 Apr. 2008 @ 19:21:41
    All is acceptable till one begins to think, 'my turn is getting closer every day' lol'
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