He was wartime hero,but that was his early life. And he was very correct and a bit uptight.

As an elderly Dad, he was hilarious. World's biggest flirt - checkout operators, doctors receptionists, his cleaner. He was so worried about her, a nice woman like that being ummarried, you would think she would be snapped up. Well she might have been, if she ever met the right woman, but we never told him that.

Had his own language - pizza wwas peeeza, mortgage was morT-gage. Refused to be called dad, or grandad, as that wasn't his name. He was Archie.

2 days before he died in hospital, he got very stressed about the nurse not having a thermometer. I assumed he was dreaming. He was actually thinking about a visit to the minor injuries clinic a few months earlier, when the nurse only had a mercury thermometer and not a new fangled one they put in the ear. I think he fancied the nurse! But I've only just realised what he meant. So, I've just given the clinic a cheque for 4 thermometers, and they are putting a plaque in the clinic to say they are in his memory

..wispa