I don’t have children who might have visited and had some very down days. He says, ‘I was suddenly alone and very lonely. Set up five years ago, it offers an annual Silver Pride online festival, social events including walks around the Cheshire countryside, coffee mornings and tea dances – and it proved a lifeline for Ron. Before returning alone to the home he and Allan had shared for 51 years, Ron, 78, came across a leaflet in the hospital foyer for the Cheshire-based organisation, a group for older LGBTQ+ people (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, and others). Ron was in the depths of grief, having just experienced the agony of holding his husband as he took his final breaths in a hospital bed, when he discovered Silver Rainbows.