It had been a tough day, although I had reason to celebrate, the housing association are finally going to remove the slippy dangerous shower and just dish the floor turning it into a proper safe wet room. I was however surrounded by people drowning in bad news and sadness, that is their story to tell not mine.

By the time I finally closed the door at night and eased back into the recliner I was drained and feeling blue. As I sat quietly trying to push away the cares of the day a small memory timidly crept to the edge of my consciousness, it quivered with fright each time I looked at it till I had calmed enough for it to edge closer.

It was a simple little memory from oh so long ago yet as fresh as the day it was made. I was fifteen and sitting with my big brother in Abottsinch Airport waiting to board my first ever plane. We were not going that far just to a country festival in London but for me it was to be a big adventure, my first flight and my first time in a proper hotel. At that moment however it looked like a vanishing dream as heavy rain and black forbidding clouds threatened to ground our flight.

Suddenly there was an announcement there was a short gap in the weather and we would take off. We were quickly hustled aboard, the hostess gave us safety instructions, checked we were all buckled up even as we headed for the runway.

It felt like we were crawling along as the pilot took us into a long slow ascent the dark cloying cloud clinging to us like a shroud. My heart felt heavy with disappointment and anxiety, was it safe to fly through this? Would I ever catch a glimpse of the ground I had so wanted to see from this height?

Suddenly we broke though the top of the cloud and I gasped in surprise at the bright sunshine and fluffy white cotton wool landscape below us. I don't suppose I had ever really thought about it to me the sun was either there on sunny days or not on dull cloudy ones, yet here it was shining brightly while on the ground it had ceased to exist.

The memory gave me one last little butterfly kiss then wandered of to play somewhere else. I allowed the worries of tomorrow and the cares of today to sink into the cleansing river of evening. Sighing in the secure knowledge that no matter how dark the clouds got above them the sun is still shining and it will break through them someday.