My loving aunty. What can i say. You were always the one to demand a kiss the minute you said hello. You were a great aunty too using thoughs great midwife skills to guess the size of both Ruby and Preston. I have so many memories of you though the years when i came to stay. Never forgetting that we had matching thumbs. Things just wont be the same without you. Lots of love and sleep tight Gemma xx

One of my earliest and most favourite memories of my Granny is when I was waiting for my little brother, Bertie who had just been born, to come home from the hospital. We decided that it would be a great idea to create a handmade welcome home sign which could be pinned on the front door. I always remember her cutting up potatoes into marvellous different shapes: stars, hearts, rectangles and triangles which we then dipped into paint and pressed onto the paper, which Granny then very carefully taped to the front door. I always remember her saying ‘now all we need to do is wait for Mummy and Daddy to come home’ I also remember the time when I was little when I went to stay with Grany and Grandad and Granny had prepared my favourite breakfast: toast with butter and marmite cut up into quarters (it sounds bad but it is actually delicious!) I always hated the idea of eating the crusts on my toast so I would always leave them when I had finished. But Granny said to me ‘If you eat up your crusts your hair will grow curly. Younger me quicky ate the crusts off my plate and realised that they didn’t taste as bad as I thought they would. As I grew up my hair in fact, did not grow curly. But I still to this day, never, ever leave my crusts because they actually don’t taste bad! I will never forget you Granny.

Dear Granny, I cherish the memories of when you had me over at your house and you took me to Lock Fyne and the Historic Dockyard in Portsmouth. Lots of love from Bertie xxxxxxxxxx