Richards failed to appear for Irish in the second half, prompting fears that the England scrum-half would be unable to join up with the national squad for Six Nations training today because of injury.
It was there that my mother prepared to depart for another place altogether, one where we would be unable to join her and from which she would not return.
Not only would people at work be unable to join in on a Friday morning, but the TV coverage would not be as extensive anyway, owing to other calls on the satellite trucks and outside broadcast units during the daytime.
The thinking underpinned the next nine months of no campaigning: the risks that Scotland could not use the pound, fears about the health and strength of Scotland's economy without the UK single market, or that it would be unable to join the European Union.
Paul Murray has made public some of the details of his consortium's proposed takeover of Rangers, but he may be unable to join the club's new board.
Still, at the Tel Aviv meeting last week, Israeli representatives told a delegation from the European Commission that without "positive understandings on the guidelines' implementation … Israel will be unable to join the European R&D program," according to an Israeli government statement.
