So sorry about your friend, MrsS, that's very sad. Any chance your mum expressed sympathy for your loss? Or just for her own. But then losing a bf very suddenly is 
too.
Alto - I have learned that if dh says "I don't think that's possible/fixable" it actually means "I don't really want to do that". I shouldn't complain as he does a lot and will do tiling, and cutting back of hedges and relocating of dead foxes without a murmur, but if it's a tedious job requiring sustained and repeated effort, forget it. I have been waiting 10 (ten, X) years for him to sort out a savings account for ds1 that was generously set up by FIL but for some reason was done as though ds1 is an adult so he is paying tax on it - it's a very small amount each year, but annoying and tbh ds1 is going to need every penny on offer when he's older as we will be brassic. Apparently it "can't be changed" 
or, translated into English, "it involves several tedious phone calls, a discussion with my dad, and filling in a form and I can't be arsed".
CV - have fun at the wedding, I bet you will look fab 
. And yes, don't do Alton Towers with a hangover. I had to do a sedate train ride the day after my 40th birthday and that was bad enough.
I have a slight end-of-term feeling about today - we are bunking off! Ds1 has a half day, and I am taking dd and ds2 out of school one whole hour early (we NEVER do this and I am giddy with naughtiness) to head up to Birmingham for a treat evening out. In my request for getting the kids out of school, I mentioned concert tickets, implying some kind of cultured CBSO event, whereas in fact we are going to see Bruno Mars. 
Can't wait!