[Margaret Pilkington]

The best gift I ever gave was not a Christmas gift, it was for Mothers Day.
I had taken Ma out to visit my sister in Oz. As you all know, I am an inveterate journal writer.
I documented where we went on our six week trip. The things we did, took pictures.
Wrote about it all.
Then when we came back I started to put all the pictures onto Disk for Ma to look at.
Mothers Day was coming and I didn't quite know what to get for Ma......so I asked her....she couldn't think of anything at all....then one day she phoned me and said she had been in Oz all afternoon - she had been looking at the pictures on the TV.
An idea was born. I would print out my journal entries and add photo's and make it into a book. It took quite a bit of doing........I kept messing it up(I was less computer literate then.........it must be 7 or 8 years ago) but eventually my book was finished.
Ma was thrilled with it. Even now she goes through it on a regular basis and she tells me that it gives her great pleasure.
The work that went into this gift was well worth it.