Intro.

 I guess that death and grief are not generally the things that inspire most people to start a blog, but I have had an overwhelming urge to write things down. A hope that it can help empty my mind of the thoughts that keep me awake at night lately. Will anybody ever read this? Probably not, but it matters not in the grand scheme of things. 

I lost my Dad on 31st March 2023. 

It was a whirlwind. In the space of a few short months, we went from holidaying in Rhodes to planning a funeral. From strolling on the beachfront to keeping vigil beside a hospital bed placed in the living room of my parent’s house. What seemed at the time like a torturous, never ending decline, was suddenly over in the blink of an eye. 

And so, I will record my thoughts as I try to make sense of the world, now that there is a painfully bleak dad-shaped hole in it.