Thank you for all the lovely things you did for all of us. You were prayerful and will always encourage and instruct me to pray about all my issues. Once I complained to you that I don't know how to pray as everything is over in a minute flat, you prepared a recitation for me. What about that time I tried to trick you to avoid going to church.. I alleged that I love to sing in the choir knowing fully well that our church then St Judes does not have female choristers. You did not say anything but two weeks later you took me to the resident methodist minister at Palm Avenue Methodist Church and I joined the choir there. My confidence soared when I was selected a soloist for that christmas. What would I say to the inspiration for coming to live in England that was fuelled from the comics you used to buy for me - June, Billy and Bessie Bunter, etc. You did these because you go to any lengths to encourage and push people to maximise their potential. The beauty is that you do so subtly with ALL your resouces. When other mothers were busy buying expensive lace and jewellery, you expend your resources on your children and whoever is in need of your help. So many are the etiquettes you taught me that are so helpful for confidence building make me stand out. You have no rival in cooking EFO ELEMIMEJE.. Your cooking is generally legendary and I have a secret to tell you now mother dearest, we sometimes fake illnesses when we have serious craving for some choice food. Choice because you feed us well normally anyway. You have a theory that the onset of illness is usually caused by bad food. As a result we go through cleansing of some concoction, pepper soup of super strength of capsaicin. If you survive that then your choice food is made for you and consume as much as you can. Why these stories, for me things that happen at home in childhood had a lot of sustainance for me. I feel like those years I spent away from home was nothing as I always feel close to you even though we were thousands of miles apart. So fragrant and very particular about personal hygiene well again I say adieu mother dearest - Ibironke Ogunbunmi