Hello folks, I am (as you can see) Hugh Marnoch, Alison's brother, I found the forum thanks to her friend Isobel who I think is in touch with Hannah?
I want to say thank you to all of you for your messages of sympathy here. I'm very glad to see that Alison was held in high regard and that she touched so many lives in such a positive way.
I would have been in contact earlier but had no access to Alison's phone or laptop, on that point can I make a plea to everyone? If you have a phone that's pin locked or password protected, write down them down and make sure somebody knows where to find them. Pretty much all of Alison's life was contained on her phone and consequently I wasn't able to get in touch with many of her friends in a timely way.
Alison was a lifelong music lover and if you are interested in hearing it, this is some of the music I chose from her collection for her service last week.
She also loved Robert Burns poetry and so I chose this from his Tam O'Shanter
But pleasures are like poppies spread,
You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed;
Or like the snow falls in the river,
A moment white – then melts forever;
Or like the Borealis race,
That flit ere you can point their place;
Or like the Rainbow’s lovely form
Vanishing amid the storm. –
Nae man can tether Time nor Tide.
