Life is so extraordinary. Wonderful surprises are just around the most unexpected corners.

It was good and nothing good is ever lost.

Beyond the pain, life continues to be sweet. The basics are still there. Beauty, food and friendship, reservoirs of love and understanding. Later, possibly not yet, you are going to need others who will encourage you to make new beginnings. Welcome them. They will help you move on, to cherish happy memories and confront the painful ones with more than bitterness and anger.

She believed, of course ... because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable.

They will come, not to paint the bay and the sea and the boots and the moors, but the warmth of the sun and the colour of the wind. A whole new concept. Such stimulation. Such vitality.

Other people's houses were always fascinating. As soon as you went through the door for the first time, you got the feel of the atmosphere, and so discovered something about the personalities of the people who lived there.

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive. Arrival often brings nothing but a sense of desolation and disappointment.