Anniversary

Today (Tuesday 24th) is the anniversary of Judy's death.

It is 42 years since my elder daughter died three days before her fourteenth birthday.

I have now lived longer after her passing than I did before it.

Here she is a few months earlier in her school uniform and the wig she wore after her hair was shaved to facilitate the radiotherapy treatment.

She would have been 56 on 27 November.

I miss her every day.

But now, instead, I have a younger daughter who is energetic, conscientious, altruistic, empathetic, thoughtful, kind and loving like her sister.

And I have four beautiful granddaughters, each one very much in control of her own life, intelligent, enterprising, generous, encouraging, and affectionate in her own unique way.

Julia

Nina

Penny

Carys

Sophie