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Thank You Ma'am  Being abroad at the time of the Queens passing, I wasn’t aware of the reflective nature of the country until I returned two days later. For so many of us, the loss the country has suffered has provided a moment to engage with our own sense of loss and to think of those we have no more. I have finished filming on the project that I cannot name, and moved on into my annual stint of conference directing, but as we brought my filming to a close, a lovely thing happened. They asked me, as is often the case, to provide photographs from my past to decorate my characters flat. On sitting down to shoot our first scene,my fellow actor pointed to a photograph and asked, “Who’s that?” And there she was. Mum. Eating her way through an ice cream on Brighton pier with me keeping watch. How brilliant to see it on the mantelpiece of my fictional home. It made me well up, of course, but I know she would be proud to have been there watching over me. She’s doing that now. There is a p