Thanks John, although it doesn't seem right, there's a kind of comfort in knowing that others have travelled the same path before us and it is not the end. I too have got to the stage where once I used to lift a sack in each hand I now need help to lift one :-)

I'm sure we have many new discoveries waiting and maybe many new friends to make, we shall see......

Ed, it,s very true that we get attached to material things, which after all, are just that. This has helped to reiterate that the most important thing is that we have each other, nothing else matters really.

whb