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Dear Sarah,

Well, that was quite the weekend. I think you'd have handled it better, but then of course, had you been here it would not have been out of the ordinary. I spent our anniversary helping Ads sort her garden out so they could get a greenhouse in there, down the side of the house where it's surprisingly warm and sunny. We've picked out a nice lean-to model which will fit the space nicely. A small fraction of your death benefit will pay for it. Mum came over on  Saturday and suddenly I realised how unprepared I was. Thankfully Adelaide was keen to have a lasagne (Charlotte couldn't make it, she had an ear infection) which was easy enough. I'd persuaded Amelia to have a garden party on the Sunday - her birthday. She wasn't overly keen but with you gone, her birthday is the only family celebration at this time whereas once we were falling over them. She can do what she likes next year, but I thought it important to do something this time and I think everyone was glad...

Dear Sarah,

 Sorry, it's been a while hasn't it. I have been busy but I should've made some time for this too. So I'll catch you up. The trip to see Steve and Alison went as well as it could. I took one of the bags of your ashes up to the Old Trecastle Road and scattered them in the stream where we used to go. It was quite grey and chilly so there was no-one else about. For the rest of the week we mostly did things we would have done. Up to Penderyn where they were very sympathetic, followed by fish and chips at Y Llew Goch. We went to Brecon where we struggled to get lunch but I did buy a screen-print of  Port Talbot which I'm sure you'd love too. I couldn't face Swansea Market though, not this time. We did go somewhere new too, Rhossili beach at the end of the Gower followed by lunch at Port Eynon. It was extremely windy and the tide was out but I dipped by toes in the sea anyway! After leaving Ponty, I drove to see Claire in Nottinghamshire via Aberystwyth of all pl...