Thank you for your card and, for me, devastating letter. I was very, very shocked and downcast when I read your news that your Dad had died so cruelly and suddenly. I had been wondering why he had not been in touch recently. You all have my deepest sympathies and I shall be grieving with you over the next few weeks. The last time your Dad and I spoke together was when he telephoned me on the day that your Mum had died. It was also the day my wife was told that she too had Alzheimer’s although it was only “mild” at that stage. So for the past two and a half years all my time has been taken up with looking after my wife in the same way that your Dad had done for nearly three years for your Mum. I was one of the guests at their wedding. In case you may be wondering where I fitted in with your Dad’s life, he and I were contemporaries at school and ended up in the same science VIth form. We got scholarships to Cambridge and Oxford respectively in the same year. We also lived near each other in Harborne, Birmingham. Consequently I met your dad’s Father who was a keen radio ham on several occasions, and later was a guest at your Dad and Mum’s wedding. We didn’t keep in touch during our working lives , partly because I lived in Scotland for many years working as an academic in a medical school, but we met up again at a reunion day at School a few years ago.