I feel a bit awkward posting this. However this summer I've been under a lot of pressure in real life and haven't been on these threads as much as usual.
Cologne always took an interest in my visits to Germany and a couple of times a year I would get her local newspapers, 4711 bits and bobs and souvenirs and send them to her home address. I know that she was in increasingly poor health and was a less frequent visitor to the Forum too. So I wasn't too surprised that she didn't get in touch.
Tonight I was having a trawl through my FB friends pages and noticed that her death was announced by (I think) her daughter on 19th June. It came as a shock.
I'm unsure as to whether this was already known on the Forum.
I'll miss our little dialogues. TschΓΓe! Frau KΓln.