Blog | Thinking of Oscar

10 Years On - Part 2 - June 20th 2024

Up until now we have been running Thinking of Oscar in our spare time, with the help of a small group of trustees. We have worked with...

10 Years On - Part 1 - June 19th 2024

Wednesday 19th June 2024 marks the 10th anniversary of Oscar’s death. He had been unwell for a number of weeks and was eventually...

Growing a Charity – Monday January 14th 2019

During the past four and a half years the majority of the work of Thinking of Oscar has been done by David and myself, with invaluable...

#TOO500 – Thursday January 10th 2019

What’s it all about? TOO500, which stands for Thinking of Oscar 500, is the name of the bike ride which we are organising to mark the 5th...

2018 in Review – Saturday December 29th 2018

Where to start? So much has happened with the charity this year it does feel like 2018 has been a pivotal one for us. For the past 18...

Inspired – Monday November 27th 2017

We had an inspirational trip to Alder Hey Children’s Hospital today to visit one of our advisors and introduce them to a partner...

1096 Days – Monday June 19th 2017

I pick up my pen less often now. It’s not that our heads are empty but oftentimes there’s not much new to say. Today it is three years...

Dear Oscar – Sunday February 5th 2017

Dear Oscar, I can’t believe that tomorrow you should be four years old. A lot has happened in your short life and the one that followed....

What makes you smile? – Sunday January 1st 2017

A while back I asked Holly what made her smile. The conversation was so interesting I scribbled it down straight away and I’ve just found...

Grief – Friday October 28th 2016

I write in my book less at the moment. It’s not that I don’t have anything to say, nor that my thoughts aren’t whirring all the time....

499 Days – Wednesday October 5th 2016

Tomorrow marks another milestone for our family. Oscar lived for 499 days. Tomorrow Barney will be 500 days old. I met a bereaved mother...

2 Years on – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly – Sunday June 19th 2016

From the very beginning I knew that I needed to write. Not for a blog but for David and I and for Holly and Oscar. For us because the...

Open Doors – Thursday May 26th 2016

I still cannot believe the experience that we had last night. I went to The Oxford Union to watch David speak. I couldn’t resist taking a...

Great Ormond Street Hospital – Friday April 29th 2016

Last year I was introduced to a father who told me about how his daughter had spent months and months in Great Ormond Street Hospital in...

Starting School – Sunday 10th April 2016

I’ve been putting off thinking about this more than fleetingly for weeks. Oscar should be starting pre-school this week. Holly would be...

Personal Challenges – Saturday February 27th 2016

David and I were talking last week about various fundraising ideas. We were discussing whether we might be able to get a couple of places...

“Even if we’re apart I’ll always be with you” – Friday 29th January 2016

Well we survived another Christmas and New Year. We were dreading them this year more than last year as we knew how tough they would be....

It’s not the end of the world – Tuesday January 19th 2016

This evening over dinner Holly managed to spill some food down herself. She paused for a moment… it hadn’t been an easy day. David is...

Christmas Eve – Thursday December 24th 2015

Sat in a traffic jam on the M25 today gave me a chance to reflect on what is about to be our second Christmas without Oscar. People do...

#GivingTuesday – Tuesday December 1st 2015

Today is ‪#‎GivingTuesday‬ around the world and in just 6 weeks Hannah Cole has put together and published the Thinking of Oscar...