Time to say goodbye, better

It’s not easy to talk about death, but these readers want to be practical as well as organised, hopefully long before they need to be…

IT’S been an emotional few weeks in the Grigg household, now that my Mum has gone. Mr Grigg and I have been going through her things, setting aside a game of solitaire for Number One Son who used to e

Where are we going to have supper exactly?” Trisha’s husband, Henry, asked in a resigned tone. Trisha looked up from the basket she was stuffing with oasis and gazed around the kitchen. The island uni

There’s a momentous decision to be made about life at Greenfields, but will Diana’s heart be ready to make the leap when the time comes?

Last spring, I held a funeral for a hedge. It was a cobbled-together ceremony for us to share our grief for the ‘singing hedge’ that had been cared for by our late neighbour for decades. The previous

Jenny Whitmore had one priority in mind when she started designing her West Sussex garden: the view. “It was what captivated me when we first came to look at this house and I knew immediately that any