Thread:JulieJemo/@comment-26449148-20160606152005/@comment-26449148-20160610215110

Thank you everyone for your condolences. My sister finally got home yesterday, exhausted and upset. It took her 3 days to get back to Hull, Yorkshire from N. Uist in the Outer Hebrides Scotland, what with ferries booked up and delayed by coastal fog. So I have had to do all the formalities and that has kept me occupied. Now we can grieve together.

I am so glad that I was with him and he just went to sleep. He was the kind of 'cheeky chappie' that everyone loves, and he had a wicked sense of humour that would have anyone laughing. He made the most of his life, with some terrible times when he was very brave, but mostly very good. When he was aged 90 he broke his hip on a cruise in the Caribbean by falling off the stage after singing karaoke! He was a true gentleman and fell because he stepped aside for a lady! So typical of him!

We will have a service that celebrates a life well lived, no black, and we will all sing his favourite karaoke song... Neil Diamond's Sweet Caroline 🎶