Dot’s Aunt Evelyn died at 1am today in North Walsham Hospital. She was 90 and had never retired, working for her son Peter at his Buck Brigg nurseries right into the end of her 80s, though she had been quite ill for the last year or so. She lived with her daughter Rosemary in a delightful spot in North Norfolk.

The picture shows Evelyn on her mother’s lap. The other two children are Georgie, who died aged about six; and John, who died in the Far East during the second world war.

The weather has been very hot the last few days, slowing everyone down. But this morning (before she received the news) Dot was out playing pitch and putt witha friend. This evening it seems that a thunderstorm might be brewing. Caddington has already had a severe storm.