Two years ago our worlds were turned upside down when we found out that mum had cancer. We were lucky enough to have mum around for another 13 months until she passed away at home on 27th March 2019 with us all by her side. 

Life has never been the same and we have all spent the last year learning how to live with a broken heart. We have had to accept all the things we will never get to do again - hear her wicked laugh (usually at one of dad's clumsy mishaps!), gossip into the early hours with her, enjoy lunch at Delice or an Eastern Revive takeaway with her, watch Corrie or Strictly Come Dancing with her, people watch with her (she always managed to work out their full life story in minutes!), have one of her delicious home cooked meals, have her tell us off for painting our nails in the front room or leaving a dirty tray in the oven, listen to one of her rants to the Royal Bank of Scotland, see her totter about in her wedges, ask her advice on which sofa to buy or which plants to choose at the garden centre or just to hug her tight again. 

We will never see mum grow old disgracefully and now have to live without her for the rest of our lives. She has left the biggest hole and the world seems very empty without her. It is really important to us that we do something to try and stop anyone else having to live without their mum, their wife, their daughter, their Nannie, their sister, their auntie, their friend, their Jules. 

As Mother's Day is coming up in a few weeks, we have decided to try and do something positive on the day by running a 10K around Hyde Park to honour mum. We will be running for Target Ovarian Cancer and of course for Jules. If you can spare a couple of pounds we would be so incredibly grateful. Thank you for your support. 

Emma, Lucy & Rory x x x

Target Ovarian Cancer is the UK's leading ovarian cancer charity working to improve early diagnosis, fund life-saving research and provide support to women with ovarian cancer.

Awareness of ovarian cancer is low, its share of UK research funding has dropped and three quarters of women with ovarian cancer say they do not get the support they need.

Enough is enough. It's time to TAKE OVAR.

Together we can make sure women in the UK have the best chances of survival and get the right support at the right time, in a way thats right for them.

£7 could enable a GP to update their knowledge of ovarian cancer and best practice for early diagnosis.

£17 could fund our nurse-led Support Line for women with ovarian cancer for one hour.

£50 could help 50 people to learn about the symptoms of ovarian cancer by receiving our symptoms leaflet.

£250 could fund a day of lifesaving research through one of our studies.

Raise awareness. Fund research. Save lives.