A gift.

Our dear friend Mrs R who lost her husband 15 months ago , still uses the talents of Mr Tbay to help with her business. She is still so terribly lost without him and her grief is so dreadful to see. We both try to help and support her in any way we can and we all joke about her being Mr Tbay's 'other wife' .

She often feels so guilty she has to rely on him to help her still. Of course we will be there for just a long as she needs. Mr Tbay has just done her vat return for her and she kindly sent me these wonderful flowers to say thank you for lending him to her. They are so lovely. And do I mind lending him out? Of course not! I hope that should I be in the same position there would be a 'Mr Tbay' to help me.

I spent a great deal of today with her, just sitting and listening. She knows that should she wish to cry , she can , and I won't mind. She knows that she can just be as she feels, not putting on a front. Sometimes that is good for the soul. I don't think her grief will ever lessen but hopefully she may learn to live along side it. We will walk with her for as long as she needs.

Farming - much clearing up going on! The building site is a hive of activity levelling and generally making it all ready for the steel frame to start going up. However our construction man is running behind due to the weather. He is two days adrift on his current job due to the high winds. He will be here soon as he can. Two on compost. Rusty a very unhappy camper again to day as a concrete lorry cut him up at a set of local traffic lights and scrapped his tyre on the tanker!