One step forward slowly gently

Some words and pictures

  • Full of Grace

    It’s been six years since I started to talk about the effect of my mother’s suicide, sharing my story for the first time, by invitation of my now friend Angela Samata at a private audience with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. I sat terrified with a collective of others bereaved as part of a Read.

  • Cottage over there

    In the cottage over the brow of a leaf carpeted hill, sits a small woman attempting her weekly cryptic crossword while a pan bubbles on the stove. A log fire crackles and a small white dog dozes in its warmth on a sheepskin rug. Whispering smoke dances from an old wise chimney stack that has Read.