A much liked, empathetic, chatty, considerate, wise, knowledgeable, enabling, company enthusiast leaves fantastic cakes, quiche and good times to come, behind.

They were appreciated by all and sundry and their sundries.

They are on a journey that is going to be seen as a self-styled pilgrimage by future writers, scholars and even wastrels, alike.

Opportunity exists in every molecule breathed in or out, or upon which we stand.