Dear LPG, 

By the time you are reading this message I will have written it a while ago, but I have just discovered that the day that I have asked LPG to post it, is National Brother and Sister Day. 

It is funny how easy it is to lose touch with them once you all leave home, and that becomes even more of a possibility as you get caught up with your own jobs and family.  If you could identify with what I am saying when you were still in your thirties and forties it is often the case that things have only become more non-existent during the retirement years.  

If you are like me at least one of them now lives in another country and you may be closer to the one who lives thousands of miles away than you are to the ones who live a whole lot nearer to you and a few miles up the motorway.  You may well have nieces and nephews that you may have spoken to on the odd occasion, but that have all but grown up while you just heard about them from time to time as they worked their way through childhood. 

Over the past couple of pandemic-ridden years, while many of us had nothing better to do, one thing I did was call my siblings a little more often and, even though it has been a while now since the official lockdown ended, we still schedule a group video call once a month just to catch up and make sure we know a little more about what is going on in each other’s lives

If getting in touch with a sibling is one of those things that you have been promising yourself that you will do for a while, perhaps today is the day to do it.  You never know what might happen in the months to come and having their support could make all the difference…

SK, Addiscombe 

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