McLaws

There’s been a lot happening in my life this past week – makes a change from the usual routine of pill swallowing, sleeping and shuffling about the place. For a start, on Sunday my mate Stuart completed the Berlin Marathon in fine…

Earlier this week my friend Bob arrived at our house to discuss arrangements for my funeral. We’ve known each other a long time through journalism – he’s a former national newspaper editor and now a qualified celebrant. Laura and I had…

A DEAR friend of mine lost his daughter to cancer last week. He and his wife caught a last-minute flight to the UK from their Tenerife home to be with her as she slipped away peacefully. She had held on to see her parents, her sister,…

When there were shortages of certain things in the supermarkets, we decided to create a wee “stock cupboard” up in our loft. Just a few things such as toilet paper, kitchen roll, anti-bacterial spray, wipes, and some dried foods such…

SPRING was in the air. Hope and warmth was oozing into our lives. We emerged from central heating to sun-kissed gardens and we ordered little strawberry plug plants with visions of huge crops of big red berries that would sustain us…

Two weeks into my new treatment and a young mum whom I worked with a while ago started her breast cancer treatment on the same day. “We can go bald together,” she messaged as we both headed independently to our respective treatment…