<img class="alignright wp-image-1747 size-thumbnail" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/house-sunshinemay14-200x150.jpg" alt="house-sunshine(may14)" width="200" height="150" />On Friday morning I held an open house for the friends Jane made in the short time we have lived here. It was quite a house full and it was once again very rewarding to be telling people how Jane lived her life before we came here. As someone said "after 18 months I wouldn't have enough friends to fill my bathroom" but Jane was like that, once you met her you felt she was a friend for life - she certainly was to me.

We prepared with cakes and biscuits but they were not needed because Mags (art teacher and friend) had made a lemon drizzle cake and Penny, the cook from Caistor Arts and Heritage Centre where Jane did the washing up and looked after the sale of books, made a wonderful carrot cake.

It went well and it helped to develop closer bonds particularly with the people from Jane's art classes who I haven't really met before.