AN OCEAN OF LOVE

Tom, I always knew that one day there would be a knock on the door. In the end, it wasn’t actually a knock, was it? It was a note left on the coach roof of our boat when we were on holiday, out at a fish restaurant on the Isle of Wight.

We lived every summer on our yacht, Seabreeze, pottering around the Solent, joined from time to time by our family – our daughters and their children, our treasured grandchildren.

We have had fun, haven’t we? So much fun over the years.

You have been such a good husband to me, and father to Zara and Emily, our leggy blonde daughters, both with infectious laughs just like yours.

YOU WERE YOUNG, A FREE SPIRIT

How the years have rolled on. Now we have five grandchildren. Three ‘bels’ – Annabel, Isabel and Christabel. And two disciples – James and John. They are our life blood, and we