Goodbye (2023)
My beautiful wife. We first met in Durham as student teachers in September 2000. You saw an art print in a shop window near the Cathedral and immediately fell in love with it - ' Dance Me To The End of Love ' by Jack Vettriano. I didn't have the heart to tell you it was named after a Leonard Cohen song - you were very much a Cliff Richard and show tunes kind of girl and I thought the connection to a famous misery guts might put you off. In 2003 we chose to have the picture on our wedding invitations, as a nice link back to how we first met. A relative bought us a framed print as a wedding present and it still hangs in our home. Eventually, you did get to hear the Leonard Cohen song and to my surprise you absolutely loved it. You said you wished you'd known how beautiful the lyrics were, and you'd like to have danced to it at our wedding. It was our 20th Wedding Anniversary in April this year and we'd often talked about renewing our vows as an excuse for an...