Happy Birthday, Mum! I'm thinking of you more than ever today, on what be your 89th birthday. You're always in my thoughts and are massively missed. Much love to you.

A heartfelt and apt poem chosen by my Mother Jean for this occasion, by Helen Lowrie Marshall about having happy memories of her living on after she's gone: Afterglow I’d like the memory of me to be a happy one. I’d like to leave an afterglow of smiles when life is done. I’d like to leave an echo whispering softly down the ways, Of happy times and laughing times and bright and sunny days. I’d like the tears of those who grieve, to dry before the sun of happy memories that I leave when life is done.

For my beloved Mother & best friend, who travelled the world. May your final journey be one of peace & harmony. We'll meet again at the final destination. You'll always be deeply loved by everyone and will forever be in my heart & our thoughts.

Thank you for setting up this memorial to Jean. 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.