Nanny you were always warm and caring, I remember lots of vsits, where you always had a gift ready on my bed a little box of raisins and a puzzle book. Thank you for planting the seed for quizzical / problem solving skills i have fond memories of spending the afternoons sat on the living room floor with my head buried in those pages. Every time I arrived there was always still a small part that believed I would walk in and see a chocolate bar but alas always raisins. Now I can look back and see this was all about you trying to do the best for us kids, needing no encouragement to eat high sugar snacks, certainly not me! Instead I was kept entertained and quiet with puzzles that engaged my brain, no iPads back then! Exceptions were always made at Easter when I would look forward to you passing round the bag of Cadburys chocolate mini eggs. And your homemade lemon curd on toast for breakfast. You were a whizz in the kitchen, cake baking and decorating being your forte, attention to details of tiny pearl centred flowers, they were beautiful and the cake... Australian fruitcake, no one knows what makes it Australian but it was always delicious and in the cosy living room at the end of our stay we would eat a slice with a cup of tea, making sure there were leftovers to take home, and I would curl up and snooze on the sheepskin rug in front of the fire. It wasnt all about food and we would be treated to a visit to the big leisure centre to swim with the wave machine and run up and slide down the water flumes. You and mum would float and chat in the pool and my sister, Catherine, and I were usually somewhere in the process of queuing or sliding down the flumes when the warning alarm for the waves starting would go off and we would race to get to you in time. We always spent the afternoon smiling. I will miss you and you will always be in my memories, i hope you are now enjoying the comfort of resting in peace, lots of love Claire xxxx