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It's my brother's 40th birthday today. He's also scattering dad's ashes. I'm glad he's finally doing it because Pauline kept asking if he had, but didn't want to ask Chris himself, she felt dad wasn't totally at rest until they were done. Chris has had them a long time, but he's always said he wanted to wait for a nice day and then have a final game of golf with dad, scattering a bit at each hole. Whether he's always intended to wait until his birthday or it just hit him that it's finally the right time I don't know. But it was something he always took seriously as it was dad's last request. So I hope their last game is going well.

I went to see Star Trek and it was excellent. Touching and exciting and I really did enjoy every moment.

We also went to Beamish one day. It's a huge working museum with shops and a pit village and loads of other things. The whole site is ringed by trams you can travel on, but it was still a lot of walking and by the time we got home on the night I was good for nothing but soaking in a hot bath.

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It's been a good week, included in that a visit to Lush where they gave me a free fresh face mask and we discussed new products and the Christmas range and just, man, that shop remains my favourite always.