Vale Janey Reid

                                   

Janey putting on mothers 'rattlers' as juju against crashing - Siem Reap airport. It worked!

Doing the 2013 census at Waiheke island, New Zealand.

My adored sis. It feels like you've just dusted off your green fingers that used to coax and lovingly tend the pots in your little courtyard.

Nurturing, tenacious, intelligent, quiz loving, brilliant cook, wordsmith, foodie, stoic, honest, unbreakably loyal to your whanau, painstaking and passionate. 

You were the best big beautiful sister.

So I shall chat out loud to you, knowing that you know what it is that I'm sharing, cos chances are it would have been a particular colour, or a plant, or piece of furniture, or teapot (amongst dozens) that would have caught your eye too. 

So its not goodbye. Not really. Because you're always with me. That's the joy of having shared a lifetime with you my wonderful simultaneous sister.