Siblings: love, rivalry, hilarity and loss

Smells like team spirit: Part 4

And then there were two

My siblings (an older brother and sister) are I were extraordinarily close in adult life, for which my hugely self-deprecating mother grants herself ‘at least I did one thing right’. I say ‘were’ extraordinarily close, not because there has been some dramatic deterioration in the relationship, but because one of us is no longer he…