[Romantic Old Bird]

This is very sad indeed, BUT there is a time for all of us, after which the struggle involved and quality of life left makes it not worth it.

This is the time to go naturally and peacefully, with dignity, and I hope this was the case for Thora.

Miriam, was 'Lost for Words' the play with Pete Postlethwaite where he was looking back at her house, with the sellotape up the stairs? If it was, I couldn't agree more.

The most wonderful piece of television drama I have ever seen. So moving, and so affectionate. It brought back everything I felt about my lovely mum too, who I still miss so much.

I hope they do show it, although anything she did in her later years (not particularly last of the Summer Wine though) was eminently watchable.

Her greatest gift was her normality, and her ability to communicate on that level. She epitomised a time I grew up in and understood.