Olly Mann is a presenter for Radio 4, and the podcasts The Modern Mann, The Week Unwrapped and Today in History with the Retrospectors
“IS THERE ANYTHING YOU WANT FROM GRANDMA’S FLAT?”. My uncle, texting me, last week.
His mum had passed away the week before; aged 96, in a hospice, completely compos mentis, indefatigable as ever. He’d begun the painful yet necessary task of sorting through her belongings. Dividing them into the familiar post-mortem piles: Retain, Sell, Donate.
I required zero thinking time. Yes, I would like her aloe vera plant,
