Thank you for your good wishes. Yes the passing is sorrowful but I am again in touch with her lovely grandchildren, so pleasing. As for the little tree, we live in an apartment, fortunately ground floor, but hat little tree belonged to the apartment building next door. I doubt I could get them to grow another. I may sneak a small one in when they aren't looking! Seriously I will speak to our gardener here to see if he can do something. Funny how things grow on you and yet when they are gone you realise how much you miss them Rather like people. By the way, do read a book called "Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari, It's so very interesting. Kind regards jv