Sandra,
thank you so much for the beautiful poem. I will take it home along with all the other messages and translate it for my family. My parents have taken it rather badly, my father being old and ill himself was very upset and my mon, who insisted to be alone with him his during his last minutes, cries every time she thinks of him. Things are slowly getting better and they now start to talk about their memories.

NoahsMummy,
Gigio is a sweet name even though it's the name of ...a mouse. I can't recall who called him that (we were all livng home at that time) but whoever it was decided to name him after a puppet who was rather popular. Once he was sleeping, that program was on, someone on the telly just shouted "Gigio", the cat woke up with a jump and looked at us as if he wanted to say " It wasn't me, I was sleeping honest!"