My heart aches today. There is a giant hole where my mum should be. But I am not wholly sad. Mum has truly gone to a better place and Dad, who left his own gigantic hole, is right there with her. Do not think of them only with tears and sadness. Remember the happy times, smile, laugh as you did then and hold tight to those memories and the love you shared. They are reunited at last. Mum is probably reorganizing the furniture & bossing Dad around, telling him to get his feet off the chair! And Dad will put them right back up just to hear her tell him once again. When I look at their photographs their smiles seem more knowing somehow, an air of satisfaction lays upon them I had not noticed before. As if they are telling me, it is okay, we are together, and all is right again. And I smile with them.

Thank you for setting up this memorial to Joan. We hope that you find it a positive experience developing the site and that it becomes a place of comfort and inspiration for you to visit whenever you want or need to.

I am I and you are you, whatever we were to each other that we still are. Speak to me in the easy way which you always used. Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? Life means all that it ever meant, it is the same as it ever was.