Johnny

“I lost my boy in the mosque. He was 14 years old. A tough bloke, he had dreams of being a goalkeeper. It’s been a hard two years. I’ve got through it and my faith and belief and knowing where he is, knowing that there’s an afterlife, he’s there, enjoying life. I could have lost […]

Abby

“I’m not your everyday widow. I don’t know what people expect. That I should just be sad; full stop. Stop living. Clearly you haven’t met me. That’s not me; it’s not what we stood for either. Andrei was diagnosed when Alice was two, with a rare form of cancer. And he fought hard. It was […]

Sue

“I don’t use that term retirement. What does it mean? It conjures up pictures of people just sitting around doing nothing much.  No, I’m a community volunteer. After everything that I’ve been through and you don’t need the chapter and verse,  I can look back on my life with an enormous sense of joy and […]

Natalie (part two)

“Brenna would have turned 20 in April. Thomas would be 27 today. They both had the joy of eating, they both loved food. When this joy left them, we really had to question ourselves and make hard decisions for our children and not for us. I was adamant that I didn’t want either of them […]