Covid: BBC journalist reflects on her mother’s pandemic funeral

The wake afterwards was a further organisational headache.

Here the Covid restrictions were a little more complex.

I could have a total of six people inside, but outside was less restricted, provided everyone kept to social distancing.

Thank goodness Mum had a back garden. I know that not everyone had that luxury.

It was heartening to see quite a few friends and family.

Five years on, looking back on Mum’s death and the funeral, it still feels so strange – and tinged with the sadness of what could have been.