"My nanna liked poetry a lot; she even had a few things published. She loved Elvis Presley; absolutely adored him! She loved to knit things and then donated them to charity.

"You didn’t mess with her. She was straightforward, straight-talking but that was just her!

"I don’t think she was easily influenced. She had her own mind, for definite.

"I know that she’d not been well, she went to the doctors and they’d done some tests and that’s how it came about that she had cancer and that was in September.

"She was taken to Castle Hill and she was given more tests. It had spread from her lungs to her brain. She had three brain tumours but they couldn’t operate on them. It was only a short time from her diagnosis to her passing. It was only 12 weeks.

"She did have a cough. She used to be a smoker but she’d quit a good few years ago. I remember her having a cough constantly.

"I think a lot of people don’t go to the doctors. They say that they can’t get an appointment and they’re like, ‘I’m wasting someone’s time!’ But, if you’re not right, you know your body. Go! If people do go earlier, they could get a diagnosis that prolongs their life or saves their life. It could be curable. If you’ve got any signs, then definitely go.

"One of my colleagues once had a cough for a while and even her son had said, ‘go to the doctors’, because he’d seen adverts about it. I did say to her, ‘go, you’ve had it a while’. Thankfully there’s nothing wrong but sometimes it just needs someone to say, ‘get yourself there, you’ll be alright’.

"If you’ve got a family, you’re frightened that you’re not going to be there for them. If you’ve got a cough and you have that worry – ‘what will they do without me?’ - that is a big factor.

"It’s alright worrying but if you get early diagnosis, you will be here! And sometimes it’s nothing, some people just have a cough. Early diagnosis is definitely key."