UK AIDS Quilt Memorial, 2025

As I walked out of the Tate Modern, from the UK AIDS Quilt Memorial, I was thinking back to people I knew living with HIV in the 1980s and 90s… Some stories I’d like to share, here, are for particular people who didn’t have a quilt, well, not one that was visible that day.  I am hoping that the reason there was no quilt is because they are still alive.

Fall of the Berlin Wall

Where were you when the Berlin Wall came down? With so many epoch-changing events during a person’s lifetime, the fall of the Berlin Wall ranks as one of the greatest world events during my own life time.

TV interview: Princess Diana and HIV

Some of my WordPress pages have been discovered – twice – by filming companies!  The first, resulted in an interview with the wonderful Rupert Everrett. Then, in the week I celebrated my 30th anniversary of starting as a nurse on an HIV ward, I was interviewed for a documentary series on the Royal House of Windsor.