Raising a Smile for Northern Ireland Children's Hospice. Brian Boone's Bailie

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      •Last year Northern Ireland Children’s Hospice cared for 232 children with life-limiting conditions.

      •Over 90% of the care that Northern Ireland Children’s Hospice provides is done within the family home, which is where the child is most comfortable and most familiar. The hospice provides specialist nursing care for these children, so that the rest of the family can go out and do things that need done; things that you and I take for granted. When there is a very ill child in the family, basic things like popping along to the shops or getting a hair-do, becomes very difficult without the specialist support of the hospice.

      •There are six bedrooms in the hospice, and there is also accommodation for the families of children who are staying there.

      •Northern Ireland Children’s Hospice has a hydrotherapy pool, a multi-sensory room, and offers lots of complimentary therapies to the children it cares for.

      •When a family is told that their child is too ill to survive, it is a devastating and daunting time for the whole family. Northern Ireland Children’s Hospice offers support for the whole family through every stage of this journey. The hospice is there for the whole family, listening and respecting their wishes for the care for the child. The hospice isn’t just a luxury for these families: the hospice becomes an indispensible lifeline.

      •Last year Northern Ireland Children’s Hospice also worked closely to support 155 families who were bereaved. Once a child dies, the hospice continues to provide support for the whole family, to help them through their grieving, for as long as they need.

      •Northern Ireland Children’s Hospice is the only children’s hospice in Northern Ireland. The hospice receives some funding from the government, but they are still very dependent on the continued kindness and generosity of the local community.

      If you didn’t buy this book, but have borrowed it, or if you wish to help support the hospice, you can make a donation right now at:

       www.justgiving.com/nichildrenshospice

      And you can show support on Facebook here:

       www.facebook.com/NIHospice

      Dedicated to the memory of our friends

      wee brothers Zak and Conan.

      Loads of Pumpkins by Brian

      I had a little pumpkin, I got for Halloween,

      I dug it out and carved it up, and it looked really mean.

      But I kept all the seeds inside, and stuck them in the muck,

      I added lots of water, and some wee-wee just for luck.

      Then some time later, I went out to have a little look,

      To see if there was anything, to give my mum to cook.

      Lo and behold, surprised was I, so many had I grown,

      I had to call the fire brigade upon my telephone.

      “Help me, please! Oh help me, I need to eat these pumpkins,

      Have you got a sucky thing for sucking lots of junk in?”

      “No,” they said, “You’ll have to eat them all up by yourself,

      They’re really awfully good for you, and fill you full of health.”

      So mum made soup and stew and pie and put it on my plate,

      And told me not to leave the room until I had it ate.

      My belly swelled, my tummy groaned, my bum produced some gasses,

      Don’t give me no more pumpkins, please. Next year I’ll just grow grasses.

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