Dear John

I wish you were here, John, and could see the sea with me.  I wish we could have breakfast again together, as so many times before.

I wish we could drive out together and look around some small tourist attraction.  Look round the gift shop, sit and have tea.

Yesterday, John, I was in a lovely cathedral gift shop and there was a leather bookmark of the place which we didn’t have.

I know if you’d been there you would have bought one.  I don’t know which colour you would have chosen.

I didn’t buy the bookmark.  Am I going to continue adding to our collections, without you?

No, I think all the collections can be considered ‘frozen’.