BBC Good Food Magazine

“With Paul around, I’d experiment in the kitchen”

It was a quick snap of a special moment in time captured on camera, but this final photo of Kathleen Campbell and her neighbour Paul Jones (left) represented more than a decade of life-changing friendship. In the caption, Kathleen, 66, typed: ‘I cooked a really nice dinner (below) and he’s not here to share it. It’s a huge hole in my heart.’

Months after that photograph was taken, Paul passed away from terminal cancer.

Kathleen and Paul had bonded when he’d welcomed her to the Victoria housing development with coffee and helped her move in. She says, “We were two single oldies. I was divorced and he was Jack the lad and we’d

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from BBC Good Food Magazine

BBC Good Food Magazine2 min read
How The Reewild App Works
1 Open the Reewild app and search for any dish or recipe, or simply list out the ingredients in your meal. 2 The app calculates the Carbon Calories of the dish, providing a full carbon emissions breakdown and an equivalent in car miles. 3 Log the mea
BBC Good Food Magazine2 min read
European Treasures
July 2024-September 2025 from £899pp* The Loire Valley is known as ‘the Garden of France’, being one of the country’s prettiest regions. Once the playground of royalty, it remains an example of rural France in its purest form and is steeped in tradit
BBC Good Food Magazine4 min read
Canned Fish
SERVES 4 PREP 20 mins COOK 40 mins EASY Boil 2 eggs for 8 mins, then leave them to cool long enough so you can comfortably peel them. Meanwhile, heat 2 tbsp oil from 3 x 120g cans of sardines in sunflower oil in a large pan and fry 2 finely chopped o

Related Books & Audiobooks