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Thank you for my brothers – a ready made set of friends for life, there for me when I was born.
Thank you for the hours and hours and hours of catching practise, batting practise, football matches, birthday parties.
Playing French cricket until it went dark. Carrying on after it went dark. Catching tennis balls in the black Holyhead night.
For, just about, seeing the funny side when I spray painted the car.
Thank you for Fats Domino, Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis.
Thank you for dancing on tables, and falling off them sometimes.
Thank you for America, and aeroplanes and adventure.
Thank you for swimming in the sea, lakes and rivers.
Thank you for being quietly proud of all of us.
For the mischief in your smile and the twinkle in your eye.
For the road trips, the quizzes, the capital cities and the thirst for knowledge.
Thank you for showing me how to be a good dad.
Thank you for understanding whenever you could, and for not judging whenever you couldn’t.
Thank you for making the world a better place.
More fun, more tolerant... just more.
Thank you for the most important business tip I ever had in my life. “Sometimes when there’s so much to do, all you can do is go home and come back again tomorrow!”
Thank you for the very occasional hug, the endless games of golf, nips of whisky and firm handshakes.
Thank you for coaxing our dog Prince back to life when we came back from Canada.
For teaching me how to skim stones and sink German submarines.
Thank you for answering the phone and picking me up in the middle of the night, with no – well very few questions asked.
Thank you for showing me that there are two sides to every story.
Thank you for the family. It is the most important thing in all of our lives.
Thank you for showing us how to live a good life.
Matt:
18/05/2020