Del Boy never marries. He has had many girlfriends, a fact that is the subject of numerous sarcastic comments by Rodney. He finally meets his partner Raquel Turner (whom he calls his "significant other") in the 1988 special "Dates". Del's mother Joan dies on 12 March 1964, apparently after a long string of illnesses. His lazy father Reginald leaves three months later (on Del's 16th birthday), taking most of their money and even Del's birthday cake. This leaves the teenage Del as the family's sole breadwinner, looking after his grandfather and Rodney, his half-brother who was born around thirteen years after him
Cyclone Raquel while it was the third tropical cyclone on record in the Australian region during July. However, both records are considered patchy, as it is possible that tropical cyclones were missed by forecasters prior to satellite monitoring being introduced, while several tropical lows have also been monitored during July. The two tropical cyclones that were previously monitored in the Australian region during July, were Cyclone Lindsay of 1996 and an unnamed cyclone of 2007, both of which formed in the Indian Ocean. Cyclone Raquel Tropical Cyclone Raquel was the first tropical cyclone to exist within the South Pacific Ocean during the