The most important man in my life; 1936-2013.

• His old Yorkshire way of talking.
• His penmanship.
• When I was a baby and my mother couldn't get me to sleep, he always could and did so on my second night at home.
• The picture of he and I riding around on his scooter.
• His stew.
• The little heart-shaped card I made for him that he kept pinned up in his kitchen; it said To Dad instead of To Grandad.
• Spending most of my summers at his house.
• How he could answer every question I had.
• The silly little plastic dalmatian I bought him that he's kept ever since.
• Wearing one of his cardigans when I was cold.
• Watching terrible television late into the night.
• Him tucking me into his gigantic bed before saying, "Goodnight and God bless."
• How he'd sit and watch Disney Channel with me all day - That's So Raven was his favourite.
• Taking Jenny for walks down the lane.
• Going to his house after school, him making me dinner.
• Going to car-boot sales first thing on a Sunday morning.
• The questionnaire he filled in for my homework about WWII, he drove me all the way to Eden Camp the next week.
• Falling over and him trying to get up quickly to pick me up.
• Sunday lunches at the pub.
• The night he took me to get my dog, Duchess; he was telling me about a family he'd met who had a lovely border collie, which happened to be my favourite breed, and I kept asking him, "But whose dog is it?" because I just knew she was going to be mine.
• When he nodded to my laptop and asked, "Can you get pictures on that?"
• Spending the day driving and talking and getting lost; the weather was so lovely and I realised I was always going to remember that day.
• He liked Queen and Abba.
• The way he sometimes referred to himself in third person when he was talking to me because, as far as he was concerned, he was still talking to his little girl. He'd say, "Ah Grandad," instead of, "Your Grandad."
• (The day after my birthday:) "I'll have to eat some of that cake, 'cause she keeps looking at me," and later, "I can see you being a baker."
• The last time I saw him, when he told me I looked lovely in my new dress and told me he loved me.
• He kept every single thing he had that belonged to me - every single thing.