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I am currently home in the UK with the family for a few days, which is lovely. It also inevitably means that at some stage my Mum and I will go shopping. This time there was discussion about Christmas creeping in. Namely my mum asking me what I wanted from her & dad… so far [...]

So that was it. My Uncle Dave was gone. Wow! It was the funeral I didn’t think I’d have to go to for a long, long time. Even with all of the illness of the last few years, I still didn’t think I’d have to go to his funeral. Not for a good few years [...]

I wasn’t ready at all. None of us were. He was fighting the Leukemia. Fighting it like the stubborn, obstinate bloke that we all knew him to be and loved him for. Since the bone marrow transplant in May he hadn’t been the best and was really ill, but we had been forewarned to expect [...]