Words from my mum on her mum, January 16 2020:
REMEMBERING RENE
It was 25 years ago today … that we said a sudden and far
too early goodbye to my totally outrageous, unashamedly outspoken, embarrassing, but irreverently witty “Mum” known
to officials, neighbours and grandchildren alike as “Rene”.
In the mucky, murky West Midlands town of her birth, Tipton
- she used to boast to newcomers in a pseudo posh voice, “I come from the country:
the Black Country” - Mum was known as the News of the World. What she didn’t
know wasn’t worth knowing. But because she knew everyone, she cared about them
deeply too and her other nickname was “Rene with the ‘eart of gold”.
