Our life story scribbled on the back of an envelope

Jason Wilde secretly collected his mother’s touching and revealing back-of-envelope messages to his father. Giulia Rhodes finds out whyFrom meal plans and doctors’ appointments, to parties and holidays, births and deaths, the nerve centre of Vera Wilde’s family life has always been the back of a used envelope.Through scribbled notes, Vera, her husband, John, and their three (now grown-up) children – Jason, Sarah and Jo – have managed a busy household. On returning f