n AmPaula. A couple of years later he disappeared again, for a few months this time.
Then he started up a property business in Spain, which went bust.
Then he got involved in some dodgy pyramid scheme and tried to get all our friends involved.
Somewhere along the line he became an alcoholic... then he moved in for a bit with some Spanish woman But Mum kept taking him back.
Then, at last, about three years ago, he moved to Portugal for good, apparently to get away from the tax man.
Mum had various other “gentlemen friends” over the years, but she and Dad never divorcednever really let go of each other at all. And, evidently, on one of his jovial, the 51 drinks-?are-?on-?me-?darlings Christmas visits, she and he must have... Well.
I don't exactly want to picture it. We got Amy, tha
