Funeral finale
What are you supposed to feel at the funeral of a dearly beloved partner with whom you have shared over half a...
What are you supposed to feel at the funeral of a dearly beloved partner with whom you have shared over half a...
It is now 20 days – almost three weeks – since Nick died of Alzheimer’s on 20 August. And I find myself...
When I was a child in the early 1980s, for several years in a row we would chuck a load of camping...
Till death us do part. That’s what we vowed at St George’s Church, Forest Hill back in 1969 and we both kept...
My Loved One has now been in palliative care for what feels like a very long time indeed. I’m writing this as...
This horrible, hideous, hair-raising story is nearly over. Last Wednesday I was called into the hospital at 2.30am. I got there in...
When you are struggling with the hardest job you ever do – trying to raise a child half-decently – and you’re heading...
Letting go You lie, dying Inch by inch. While I am brightly, tightly alive In my rainbow summer clothes, Smelling of outdoors...