Dear LPG,

Every time I write to LPG I seem to bring the same message and I hope that I don’t come over as the bringer of doom, but I feel my message to be a really important one even though I have to admit that I am talking the talk and not yet walking the walk.  

I want to remind readers about something that I have been doing in the back of my mind for at least the past 3 years. 

I even wrote to LPG about it last year and at the end of my message I promised publicly to do something about my own situation.  But I continue to convince myself that I can just about be considered a younger pensioner and like so many of us, I don’t want to start sorting out what should be done if the inevitable happens.

So while I have to admit to not having done much about my own situation I would like to refer readers (including myself) back to what I wrote last year (►►►) and give myself a bit of a telling off. 

I know that being locked down has slowed up so many processes and plans that we might have had since this time last year but in this instance, we really have no excuse.  There are lots of online templates to be found and there are quite a few solicitors who are working online or via the telephone while getting out is still a problem, and some will argue that you don’t even need a solicitor to produce a workable will.

So this message goes out to all those sixty-something-year-olds who keep finding other things that they really need to do first, like me.  Please sort out what you want before it is too late and you leave the rest of the family arguing about it.

I hope to report that I have done it this time next year…

QK, Lewisham