Whilst caring for her during her final weeks we had many chats and during one of them she asked me if there was anything of hers that I'd like, I said that I'd like her recipes, which she wrote down in a book for me. A few months later my partner was rushed into hospital with a rare toxic reaction to antibiotics. I was told there was nothing they could do and my partner would or wouldn't survive. (Thankfully she did!) I was feeling really low and like everyone no matter how old they are, when the proverbial hits the fan, you always want your mum. I picked up her recipe book went out and bought the ingredients for one of the recipes and cooked it. The aroma in the house was quite a strange experience as it felt as though my mum was there in the house cooking it. When I tasted the food it was a very emotional moment as it tasted like she'd made it and it was quite upsetting but also very comforting at the same time. The only way I can explain how I felt is that it was like I'd had a “hug from mum”! As my Mum always said, “out of everything bad comes a little bit of good".