Surreal, it’s the only word I can use to describe the opening of our very own Jolly Josh centre! Today the charity has reached a gigantic...

In 2019 I was invited to Rochdale Woman of the Year as a shortlisted nominee. I worked at the local special school teaching children...

We are now four years into our grief journey, and it’s not become any easier, time IS NOT a healer. I no longer cry every day, but...

To James on Father’s Day 2021, (an edited version from 2019) You are appreciated for being the most amazing Daddy to our children. You...

Today a special little boy should have turned 5, Joshua should have been waking up today another year older, I’d have been thinking about...

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Oliver is now 15 months and 17 days old, why is this so significant? Oliver is now the same age that Joshua (his brother) will forever be.

It’s as though a big, dark cloud bursting with ‘what ifs’ haunts me, blasting me with teasers of a life that should have been…

Oliver is one! Our journey has been difficult, we’ve never actually had the time to appreciate just how difficult...

We didn’t understand the depth of darkness that we’d be exposed to, we’ve seen and supported each other in the most horrific pain...

At present @ITV @Coronation Street are revealing a storyline for Jane Danson (Leanne Battersby) and Simon Gregson (Steve McDonald). This...

As the nation celebrates #VEday #VE75, our family not only reflects in celebration of freedom and victory, we also remember Joshua, on...

Yesterday, for a brief moment I thought I saw Joshua. It of course was Oliver but I've never seen him looking so much like his big...

In 2017 James and I travelled (with authorisation and ‘support’) from London to our Children’s Hospice in Chorley with Joshua’s body...

Today Oliver is 6 months old! I have no idea where the time has gone, for most this is a simple monthly milestone, for us it's a sigh of...

Moving forward into a New Year is always difficult for us, the further time passes, the more we feel that people expect us to have ‘moved...

Today Oliver is five months old, for us this is an important stage. His bother Joshua had monthly milestone photographs, like many...

Just two years after the launch of Jolly Josh’s first ever session, our families were today invited to a ‘Mystery Meet’, alongside the...

Oliver is 3 months old, I admit that I feel as though I’d been thrown in to a whirlwind since July and this is the first time that I’ve...

The idea of ‘Jolly Josh two years ago was ‘pure imagination’. A chain of events would lead me (Founder, Carole Kelly) to realise that...