Memphis to Denver – a stutterer and a lunar eclipse
Downtown Memphis Again apologies are due for the tardiness of this latest posting – I had wanted to write at least once a week but our schedule has proved to be really tight, and even in the few days that we get between filming it has been difficult to find the time to reflect on […]
Granny Emily, a Neville brother and a surprising revelation
I have been meaning to write about my mum and some of the difficulties we have had in leaving her to go on this trip. She is now 98 and has severe dementia. She lives in a care home near to us in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, and for many years now has considered her life to […]
Bringing death into life.
“Good Grief is one we meet with curiosity and respect rather than fear and avoidance” Prof. Robert Neimeyer Week 2 of our 4 month trip across USA and Mexico and I am certainly excited if a tad daunted at the enormity of the project that we have taken on. The hugeness of this country, the length of […]
Memories in New York and complicated grief
So I wrote the last blog posting all about our time in New York and Brooklyn and then forgot to save it … Grrrr!!! Sorry about that but I think I’ll try and recap very quickly before moving to an account of the last couple of days. First off we want to thank Jonny and […]
Forgiving is not forgetting – Scarlett Lewis (Sandy Hook)
This is Scarlett Lewis, she lives in Connecticut a two hour drive from Brooklyn where we are based for the first week of our journey. Scarlett is a single mum. She has two horses, four dogs, a whole load of chickens and two children JT (Joseph Thomas) who is 15 and Jesse who was […]
Nous sommes arrivés
Brooklyn 27th August Yes, it’s French (for we have arrived) – we are posh, intellectually sophisticated, speak many different languages, we are very erudite and know how to engage with the ‘right’ audience. And of course that includes you .. as we know parental bereavement knows no class, no race, no faith, nor language barrier. […]
Welcome to The Good Grief Project
Scroll back four and half to five years when these pictures were taken and we would have no idea (we not even be thinking about thinking) of the fate that would befall our family. And in the weeks and months after he died we had no sense of where we would be now – about […]
Joe’s doing a Tri for TCF …..
Ok, a ‘tri’ is a Triathlon and ‘TCF’ is The Compassionate Friends…  and on 23rd September Josh’s brother Joe is competing in the Brighton Tri and hoping to raise £500 for TCF. This is actually big news because Joe is a truly sporty fellow, loves a challenge, loves to compete, and loves to raise money […]
Tom and Becca’s wedding
6 days to go and two of Josh’s best friends are going to get married. So what so special about that? Get out of here … Â you can’t be serious! Mr Thomas Cockshot and Ms Becca Hyde go back a long way with our Josh – like they were all at school together and Westley […]
FOUR TREES DOWN FROM PONTE SISTO – a BBC Radio Play
When they hear the words “radio four” and “play” all in the same breathe, many people seem to recoil with the speed and determination that even Mo Farrar would envy. That’s unfortunate because they then miss many gems amongst which is a quite remarkable story that was broadcast last month. Although a regular radio 4 […]
