A younger sister is someone to use as a guinea-pig in trying sledges and experimental go-carts. Someone to send on messages to Mum. But someone who needs you - who comes to you with bumped heads, grazed knees, tales of persecution. Someone who trusts you to defend her. Someone who thinks you know the answers to almost everything.

You took me to adventure and to love. We two have shared great joy and great sorrow. And now I stand at the gate of the paddock watching you run in an ecstasy of freedom, knowing you will return to stand quietly, loyally, beside me.

A cat likes to hear you calling him. He sits in a bush a yard from your shoes - and listens.

A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.

The first step to wisdom is to be sure one says and does what one believes.

However time or circumstances may come between mother and her child, their lives are interwoven forever.

Riding turns 'I wish into 'I can'.