Noah was born in 2009, and father enjoyed every minute that he spent with him.  Before he started school, he used to spend a couple of days a week with father, who spent most of this time on the floor playing with lego, cars and various other toys.

Father was also a fan of movies, with the epic Ben Hur as probably his favourite film, along with the Tarzan films, various westerns, as well as the Lone Ranger.  As far as television was concerned, father detested all soap operas, though was a fan of comedy, including especially John Cleese and Fawlty Towers, but also Starsky & Hutch, Mork & Mindy, Butterfiles and other programmes of the period.

Father also attended the theatre, seeing the late comedian Ken Dodd several times, as well as various plays, pantomimes and musicals.

In the 1980s, father learned to swim with Norman, a family friend from church, and could swim 64 lengths of a 25 metre pool (one mile).

In the early 1990s little brother started attending Elland Road with a family friend.  Father would deliver and collect little brother from the city centre, being late on only one occasion in the 1990s.  The death of the family friend resulted in father taking the ticket, and attending football regularly with little brother.

Father was vegetarian from the early 1990s.  It is perhaps fitting that we are currently in the middle of National Vegetarian Week (14th to 20th May) and some vegetarian food is included in the buffet, which father would no doubt be pleased if people could sample.

In the autumn of 2014 father was diagnosed with Alzheimers Disease, though signs were present from two years prior.  Next week, 21st to 27th May, is Dementia Action Week.

Father was able to take part in his youngest son Jonathan’s wedding to Joanne in July 2017, including spending lots of time on his feet on the dancefloor that evening.  Father was also able to enjoy seeing grandson Noah in school Christmas plays.

Coping with dementia has been very hard on us as a family.  Mother has dedicated the past four years of her life to caring for father, which continued at home until the day before he died.