I’ve recently been considering our focuses in life. With so many wars, starvation, persecution etc it’s so easy to become dissolutioned or just downright angry. Yes, so many are taking to social media to protest or argue for left or right wing views.

However, when you have faced cancer, as I have done this year, it kind of puts things into perspective as to what’s important in life. Thankfully, I have now come through the process and am out the other side.

But it has been rewarding with lovely family events to celebrate and focus on this year – two weddings and a 70th birthday – it gives you the strength to keep going.

September has seen us celebrate two more important events. Firstly our wedding anniversary

Then just two days later, another meal this time in Cheltenham to celebrate my mother-in-law’s 95th Birthday. What an achievement!