My lawyer paternal grandmother was a stunner, even when wearing her rainbow clown wig. It was a pity that she barely practised law these days, largely due to the frailties of old age.

Changes to her lifestyle were evident in several modifications to her bungalow. For example, the house had been stripped of most of its furniture and ornaments, and where a coal scuttle once stood on the hearth in the sitting room there was now a convenient avocado green toilet.