The things I will remember

dedicated to my Grandfather, Roger Bruce Louis, who sadly passed away on Saturday 3rd of September 2011 after suffering from two illnesses for too long...

I will never forget you, with your Donald Duck impressions and love of Elvis. The way you turned into a small child with me and cousin Sammy every Christmas when you took us to the garden centre to see 'Santa'.

I will never forget how you wouldn't let go of your tools even when you knew you couldn't and wouldn't be able to use them. They were so precious to you, they carried the memories of when you raced your 1967 Bantam and the grateful families who still have your house alarms protecting their houses.

The little toy soldier called (imaginatively named) Soldgie you gave me when I was a tiny little baby in Germany, I'm still determined to be buried with Soldgie one day. The way you tried so hard to look at me and Soldgie when we came to visit you the day before it happened.

Because of you, my amazing, champion, fighter Grandfather, I will do everything in my power to make you proud. I will enter every poetry competition and writing competition I can, I will try my very hardest to get straight A's in my A Levels, I'm even going to push for Cambridge University, just to make you the proudest grandfather to have ever lived. You were and still are the best Grandfather and this was the first time you ever gave up.

I love you :'(