Sadly, on Thursday last week, I had to go to Liverpool for the funeral of my Godfather, Uncle Tom.

He was a big part of my early life, as a family, we spent almost every holiday with him and his wife, my Aunty Brenda and we all enjoyed every minute of these holidays.

Tom taught me about many things but a few points have made a deeper impression with me such as caring for animals and nature in general, Tom was a great naturalist and loved being outside walking the coastal paths.

Another thing that has lodged in my head from Tom's teachings is that when two traffic queues are merging then you are fair with the other drivers, let one in then move ahead, if everybody did that then both queues would reduce at the same speed and there would be less road rage.

It was excellent to see the whole family together again, we hadn't done that for years but very sad to say goodbye to such a quiet gentle loved Godfather.