A few years ago I had a very vivid dream. In it I saw a young man patting a Labrador dog. He looked up at me and said, "Please tell her it is fine, it is wonderful. I just knew that it was the recently dead husband of a colleague of my husband. I had only met the man once a few months before his death at the age of 55, and he had looked nothing like the man in my dream, as he was ravaged by his terminal illness.

I didn't know his wife well, and felt very embarrassed at the idea of passing on this message too her. In the end I decided I had to do it. She took it very well indeed and seemed grateful. I asked her if I could see a photo of her husband as a young man. Sure enough it was the man in my dream! On the wall were several photos of Labrador dogs, which they used to breed. I pointed to the one that resembled the dog in my dream. She said it was his favourite dog!