My Mamma, the Queen of the Bacons and the top of the tree. Most of my childhood memories include or surround her, it was hard to narrow down a few but when I think of her I think of the many times at Ingoldmells caravan and buying matching cagoules from Eastgate Market, her cooking breakfast in the villa at Center Parcs or us dressing up in her boots. I think of her pegging a clear plastic sheet around the garden umbrella for our den, re-enacting Cliff Richard videos and Sunday Dinners. Sunday Dinners that always followed the game of cards from Saturday night where no one went home and people just slept everywhere (literally anywhere there was space - if you were lucky you got a camp bed!), Sunday dinner sat on emergency chairs 'borrowed' from the club and yorkshire puddings. Still the best yorkshires ever tasted and she would always hold a few back for me. I think of arriving on Christmas Day and not leaving until after the New Year with a rolling buffet that seem to feed everyone for days at a time, and riding down the stairs in a sleeping bag.

As I got older the memories were line dancing, we would go two or three times a week. One class she would just sit and wait for me to do the advanced class after the standard class, although she would casually pass that time with a natter and a vodka. I still went to the caravan but with friends now (Which caused Mamma to be a nervous wreck for the whole time we were out!). Center Parcs was never far away.

Then along arrived great grandchildren. When I first went back to work Mamma was my childcare for many years and as more and more great grand-daughters arrived, each Monday the brown blanket would come out on the floor, supposedly to catch the crumbs from the crisps and sandwiches - Not that that ever happened. Once we had left I imagine her hoovering and re-cleaning the patio glass from tongue and hand prints left there - Not that she would ever have had it any other way.

The hole left in our family can never, ever be filled nor can Mamma ever be forgotten for that same reason. Thank you for everything, I wouldn't change a single thing. Love Sarah xxx