Flinging back the duvet, my partner, Tony, jumped out of bed. ‘Let’s head to London today and look around the galleries,’ he smiled, spontaneous as ever.
It was sometime in 2017 but it could have been any day of the week or year. Because despite being 24 years older than me, Tony was always up early, bursting with energy and ready for the next adventure.
Our passion for art is what first brought us together in 2014. I was 24 and working in a gallery and he was an artist.
Tony was 6ft tall and he had so much confidence, it was hard not to find him attractive. When we became an item after about a year, life suddenly became so much more