Editorial

12 AUGUST 2007

Hello again,

We've had around fifteen hundred unique visits to the Sunday Scene website in the last three months and that's really encouraging because it tells us that since we redesigned it at the beginning of this year, more and more of you in the UK and further afield are passing on our address to others who may find the website helpful and comforting.

Perhaps you're struggling to provide support to a member of your family, a friend or a client who's partner has died and are looking for help with the right things to say or practical things to suggest. The Sunday Scene website exists to help anyone who has any dealings with widowhood and we appreciate only too well how little information is available to help anyone get through this major life transition. If you find Sunday Scene useful, we would so appreciate an e-mail to let us know what you've found most helpful and we're always open to suggestions for new content. The more feedback we receive from our visitors, the better we're able to respond in the future.

One new project in the pipeline is to start a collection of stories of everyday people who, by facing their widowhood in a very positive way, have achieved great things and become an inspiration for others. If you know of someone like that, and have their permission, do please let us now about them and we'll do the rest.

I'll finish today with a quotation from Thomas Hardy's novel, The Woodlanders -

"Nothing ever had brought home to her with such force as this death how little acquirements and culture weigh beside sterling personal character."

As my recently widowed neighbour commented of her late husband, "This sums it all up."

May our late summer go on and on!

Jacquie