Dear Alffe,

As on Pooh fan to another, may I offer you this quote:

"You're braver than you believe. Stronger than you seem. And smarter than you think."

Christopher Robin in Pooh's Grand Adventure

I would also like to share with you a quote I found comforting when we lost the eldest of our three Border boys at Christmas:

"We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own, live within a fragile circle, easily and often breached. Unable to accept it’s awful gaps, we still would live no other way." Irving Townsend

Thinking of you