Today I had some horrible news, in that my Grandfather past away in the early hours of this morning.¬† I’ve spent the morning with family just being together.¬† For the majority of today I just haven’t really be able to process the fact that Grampy has gone, especially since he has always been around.¬† It is only now that it really is starting to go in that he is no longer around.¬† I’m not a writer by any stretch of the imagination, so I really don’t have the word to express how much of impact he had on my life and how much I’m going to miss him.¬† I think I’ve been extremely lucky with the guidance that both of my mum and dad have been able to give me over the years, but Grampy also provided much insight and inspired me in many other ways.¬† He was without a doubt a very kind, caring and creative man, but even more so also liked to play tricks.¬† For example, when we were both really young we used to play the card game “pairs” with him.¬† One time he used a mirror under the glass table to aid him in matching the pairs.¬† It took both my brother and I a while to work out how he suddenly became so good at pairs.¬† Another example of the fun he used to have was the way he taught us to recycle the washing up making the person doing the washing up confused.¬† After we dried something up he would encourage us to replaced it on the dirty side of sink for the person in the sink to wash up again.¬† This caused many hours of amusement watching and waiting for the person doing the washing up to realized they had washed up a number of items a couple of times.¬† Indeed, we actually managed to pull this prank off on Grampy himself a couple of times, however, I think he was well aware of what we were doing and just going along with the joke.
Even though Grampy never really spoke about his time in the army, I think this greatly shaped his view on the world.¬† In particular how important it was to look after each other, something that is not often considered within modern society.¬† I just don’t have the words to say how much I’m going to miss him.¬† Whilst both Jen and I knew Grampy was not well, we were hoping that he would make it through to our wedding.
