Morning my lovely. I haven't written to you for a while, but I have been thinking a lot recently about drops and ripples. Drops of kindness and the ripples they create. The smallest of drops can create the largest of ripples, and the biggest of drops the most tiny, but they all matter. The most meaningful are those drops that no-one ever saw you create. The thing about ripples is that they do eventually disappear, so you do keep having to add those drops. But you knew all this. You didn't need to write it down or explain it - you just lived it every day in your beautiful Ellame way. When you left us you created so many hundreds of ripples - of pain, but also of goodness and charity and fight and determination. So I've decided to start filling the huge gaping Ellame-sized hole in my heart with little drops of kindness - and hopefully they will create some ripples in your name. And I won't ever stop, because every time I am flailing and then I think of you it will prompt me to add another drop. The hole is too big to ever fill up, but each drop will hopefully make it just that little bit smaller, and will send Ellame-inspired ripples into the world. And I believe everyone could benefit from an Ellame-inspired ripple. Hopefully anyone reading this can feel that Ellame drop of kindness coming their way, and will pass it on..... P.S. When I asked on my run this morning whether you would like to show me you were with me, I didn't mean through the dog poo bag that immediately appeared swinging on a branch narrowly missing my head! xx