h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Nearly 50 years ago my life fell apart(it has done it on subsequent occasions, which has made it "interesting" but this collapse was responsible for my sticking a pin in the back page of the Times Educational Supplement and thus beginning my illustrious TEFL career at a sort of girls' finishing school in this small village)
A week or so ago I heard from a very good friend that she is going to a clinic there in an attempt to postpone her death from cancer. Her partner and close relatives will be renting a flat over the village bakery, which in my day made the most beautiful handmade chocs. I still have fond memories of the blown eggs filled with dark chocolate and painted with Appenzeller patterns which in some cases were thrown away months later because they were too pretty to eat

it's a beautiful part of the world - I hope your friend can enjoy it.

Still waiting for your memoirs