An ex work colleague got in touch last year to say that her Mother had died, and would I be available to conduct the ceremony? How fabulous I thought! And it was a joy from start to end; most people think I’m a little odd by saying that but this good lady had embraced life to the full and her family wanted to her to have a full celebration of this incredible life she had lived. Part of the ceremony was to include a relative reading a poem that I hadn’t come across before, “De