Tracey Edge, 52, Bicester, Oxfordshire
Double checking the kids’ seatbelts, I turned to my husband Andrew. ‘All set,’ I said to him, grinning.
It was summer 2001, and we were taking our two children Melissa, then 9, and Marcus, 7, to Alton Towers.
We loved family days.
Theme parks, classic-car shows, barbecues...
As long as we were together, nothing else mattered.
I was 18 when I met Andrew, then 19, in early 1985.
I worked as a bookkeeper in his dad’s petrol station, Andrew was manager.
He was kind and caring.
A true gent!
As long as we were together, nothing else mattered We married in October 1990 and Melissa came along a year later, followed by Marcus in September 1993.
Soon after, Andrew took over the business.
Life was…