Today it is the 60th birthday of my sister Silvia. I’m the only person alive who has known her for every one of those 60 years and I can’t believe that my little sister – she’s two years younger than me – has reached such an age.<\/p>\n
Silvia held a celebratory event in the Regency Hotel in Leicester with around 60 family and friends and it was a marvellous celebration of her immense capacity for love and friendship.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately our brother Ralph could not be there because of travel problems. He went over to Ghent to deliver a paper to an academic event and then found that he could not fly back because of the volcanic ash from Iceland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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