Annual Report LI - 2024: The one with the purple trousers
At the age of 83, with rapidly worsening health, the death of my Dad on July 14 was both not a shock and a huge shock at the same time. Although I don’t believe that he wanted to die it was at least some sort of relief; his life had not been very enjoyable for months, if not years, beforehand. From my perspective there was at least one silver lining; being an intrinsically lazy sort of guy, I now have the opportunity to recycle the eulogy I delivered at his memorial a few weeks ago, saving me the trouble of writing an introduction to this report from scratch. Apologies if you were there to listen to it in person as well - you can just skip over it and I’ll never know.