Category: Death

In the silence of this Christmas Eve I look back gratefully on all the Christmases I have spent with my

Email to a friend 23rd December 2015: “Well, we’re here in France…..! We’re in the Charente, an hour north of

On 20th December 2014, my fiancé and I drove to Bath – one of my favourite cities – to choose

Email sent to a friend from work, 19th December 2010: “Just a very short email to share my wonderful news…

Email to undertaker, 18th December 2014: You might think this odd but I’d really like 2 or 3 photos of

17th December 2014: Email from the Minister who was conducting the funeral… “I cannot begin to imagine how you are

So… Everything was arranged… A joint funeral. A joint burial… Oh, if Dad had known! All those times he had

Mum died in the early hours of Friday morning, and I don’t remember much of the weekend that followed. After

So, there really is just one breath between this world and the next, between life and death… I was holding

Email to my cousin, 11th December 2015: Hello… This day last year was the last day I spent with my