68 ACTS OF KINDNESS

Watching the ground below me get closer and closer as the plane landed, I felt a tingle of excitement.

I went to university in Albuquerque, New Mexico, after getting accepted on a football scholarship.

Every time I came back home to Derby for the holidays, I couldn’t wait to see everyone.

One of the first people on my list was my nan Emily Webster, 69.

Knocking on the door, I waited excitedly for Nan to open it with her big beaming smile.

‘Lovely to see you,’ she said, giving me a big hug.

Nan had only been in my life for the past five years, as she and my mum Yvonne, 46, had