The Courage Of Very Ordinary People Is

If There Is A Heaven, It's Certain Our Animals Are To Be There. Their Lives Become So Interwoven With Our Own, It Would Take More Than An Archangel To Detangle Them.

Many A Cat Can Only Be Lured In By Switching Off All The Lights And Keeping Very Still. Until The Indignant Cry Of A Cat-locked-out Comes At The Door.

A Younger Sister Is Someone To Use As A Guinea-pig In Trying Sledges And Experimental Go-carts. Someone To Send On Messages To Mum. But Someone Who Needs You - Who Comes To You With Bumped Heads, Grazed Knees, Tales Of Persecution. Someone Who Trusts You To Defend Her. Someone Who Thinks You Know The Answers To Almost Everything.

Dads Are Most Ordinary Men Turned By Love Into Heroes, Adventurers, Story-tellers, Singers Of Songs.

A Friend Is The Only Person You Will Let Into The House When You Are Turning Out Drawers.