My Nina was a lady like no other, she played a very big part in my childhood and I am so fortunate to have so many memories to look back on from the last 18 years.

We had a special bond Nina and I, one that could never be forgotten that’s for sure. She was always someone I could not wait to tell my stories to and show her the things I had acheived, and no matter what she would sit and listen. When she moved closer to us into the bungalow in Hatton,I would always go and visit her we would have a hot chocolate - only ever in a seal mug, I would help her in the garden (even though most of the time she’d just make me sit down on the garden swing with the nintendo DS, while she did the work because i was no good), and I would walk the dog for her (Cameron and then Megan) before going home. Then when she moved to the retirement home we always used to have chips from the chippy and most of the time she would invite my friends to come and have a chat with us too, this would usually lead to me sorting either her phone or her television out for the 1000th time because she thought she had broke it.

We had plenty of trips out mainly to garden centres and without a doubt she would either be walking out with a new coat, gillete or pair of shoes (i’d tell her they all look ridiculously similar but she would not care), it always use to confuse me that she managed to walk out of any garden centre with something to wear but rarely ever plants. Coffee shop catch ups were always the best, she always told mum that you cannot share a cake because it was a slice for one person therefore me, Lily and Finley should each have our own piece no matter what, this is a rule I will abide by forever.

When it came to me and my siblings the word ‘No’ just didnt really fit into what I like to call “the Nina Dictionary”. The most memorable words out of this special dictionary include “silly girl” “don’t tell your mother” and “oh dear”. Her smile and her laugh will be some of the things I will remember for the rest of my life. She will always be in mind whenever i suceed at anything from now on because she believed all of us could achieve anything we put our minds to and when we did achieve she would be ready to hear all about it. 

I will never stop missing my Nina, her hugs, her laugh,her sense of humour but most of all, her smile because that smile made everything seem just fine again.