Nora (86) from St Austell was diagnosed with breast cancer last year during the pandemic, having only recently recovered from surgery to remove a tumour in 2019. Following treatment and shielding during the pandemic, she no longer had the energy to be able to keep on top of her garden, something she used to do with her late husband.
Nora said “My husband used to love the garden, he designed it himself but as he had a bad hip, he used watch me mowing the lawn through the window and give me the thumbs up when I’d finished. But since being diagnosed, I’ve had no energy to do it. The garden had become so overgrown I didn’t think it was possible, but the volunteers have brought it back to the way it was. I’m absolutely over the moon.”