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Is It About My Attitude ?

by Lesley Goodburn | Apr 30, 2022 | Blog

On the 14th of June 2022 it will be eight years since Seth died…. 8 years, or expressed another way that’s 96 months, or 416 weeks, or 2920 days. I could go on quoting time, but time was exactly the issue when he was diagnosed…. the issue was that there was no time,...

Magnificence

by Lesley Goodburn | Dec 24, 2021 | Blog

For the last few years getting away at Christmas has been a relief, a way of running away from the reality of Seth not being here, but its a reality that I cant run away from for the other 364 days a year, so I often wonder why getting away at Christmas is so...

Birthday, Wedding and Funeral Flowers

by Lesley Goodburn | Dec 17, 2021 | Blog

17th December 1964 the year I was born, 57 years ago today. What a 57 years it has been. I can remember many of those birthdays, as child the birthday parties, themed on the Magic Roundabout, pass the parcel, pin the tail on the donkey, statues, lots of friends and...

NCRI helping to break the 50 year impasse

by Lesley Goodburn | Nov 19, 2021 | Blog

Everyone dreads the day when you or someone you love hears the words “You have cancer.” There have been so many breakthroughs in cancer research, leading to treatments and surgical advances which have changed the impact of a cancer diagnosis in the last 50 years. Even...

Bereaved – deprived of a close relation or friend through their death

by Lesley Goodburn | Nov 8, 2021 | Blog

I was a youngster maybe 9 years old; I watched an elderly Chinese man on the television screen he talked about the finding statues in a hole in a field. He was describing what would become known as the terracotta army. I was obsessed, I went to the library I got out...

Never Give Up

by Lesley Goodburn | Oct 31, 2021 | Blog

Aged eight, sitting at the dining room table, in despair, I stared at the numbers on the page, it was long division, the numbers seemed incomprehensible. But a strong cup of tea and a biscuit served with a “keep trying, don’t give up, you will get it” in the...