I am back in Oxford. The doctor has been to see dad and confirmed that he is in the early stages of pneumonia. She said it would be his last illness and the end seems likely in the next few days but not imeadiately. I'm working from home until the end comes as it gives me something to do. Dad is very peaceful, he's mostly asleep and very relaxed and it seems that when the end comes it will be as he wanted it: at home, at peace and with his family there. So that's not so bad.