I wish you hadn't said that! My son has just turned 16 and is talking about what Universtiy he wants to go to and, though my daughter is only 11, I've seen the yawning gap on the horizon! I was just thinking recently that all the years you immerse yourself so completely in your children, you kind of get to feeling that that's life and when you suddenly realize, as I just did, that it's finite it's a bit of a shock.

I sympathise wholeheartedly. I have a few years to go but am already dreading it and I just know I will be like you. I just feel so sorry for my Mother who lives in Australia where my sister also lives, but I live in England and my brother in America.

Love Lynne