Ake & Dave = thank you — but my mother was called Bertha Myer & died in 1967.

Valerie Grosvenor Myer [1935-2007], author of these poems, was, as I thought everyone would have realised, my WIFE of half-a-century who died 2 years ago.

I am 77. How on earth should I have had a mother born in 1935?

Michael