Christmas is a bittersweet time for the parents of kids at the Alexander Devine Children’s Hospice. On the one hand, there is delight in seeing their sons’ and daughters’ faces light up with joy as they meet Santa. And on the other is the ever-present fear that time together may be short. Hospice founder Fiona Devine knows exactly how these parents feel – the mum of three lost her son Alexander to a rare brain tumour when he was eight. Alexander was very ill for more than half of his life, and