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The Bryants aren’t the only ones smiling by the time the last strips of white and purple tulle are wrapped around the mummy and the giant warty witch is securely tied against a tree.

She added that her granddaughter "still asks for her mummy... she asks questions that no child should ever have to ask".

"At primary school my children went from saying 'mummy's a nurse' to saying 'mummy marries men on Saturdays' which was slightly confusing to the teacher!" she jokes.

He said telling their three-year-old that "mummy was not coming home" had been "devastating".

"When a mummy comes to us she is often surviving for the sake of her baby and at the end when she is surviving for herself, that is mighty."