My mum was one of those people who you only meet once in a lifetime. This was made abundantly clear to me recently when colleagues of mine were insistent that I should write a book about her life and my childhood. We finally decided on the format that this should take on the Monday before Mum passed away. I saw Mum the next day and shared my plan with her. We were going to sit down once a month with a bottle of wine and talk about different events in her life. As you can imagine she loved this idea! Sadly I am now unable to listen to those stories from her so am asking you her friends and family to do it in her place.