My grandad.
My grandad was interviewed by the BBC due to having the same birthday as the queen : news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/4926794.stm

He was in a nursing home by this stage and his health was deteriorating greatly. He'd led a pretty amazing life and it was fantastic for him to have his chance to recount it to people other than his family and friends. Unfortunately he passed away shortly after.

He was a great man and I don't think his children or his grand children, or even his great grand children would be in the positions they are in life without his help. I know I get my love for technology, sci-fi, and horror from him.

I have too many stories to post about what made him great to me. But the one that always stands out when I think of him is of a summer holiday when I stayed at my grandparents house in Liverpool for a week. A video shop had just opened over the road and my grandad was itching to test out his new VHS recorder on something other than recording episodes of Coronation Street for my gran. So off we trotted over the road and rented out some of the worst horror, sci-fi, and action that the 80's and early 90's had the pleasure to crap out on video. Troll, Arena and Best of the Best were some particular highlights. We had to wait until my gran had gone to bed as she didn't approve. :)

Incidently, my gran (the Dorothy of his story) is still going strong. She's in a home as well these days due to health problems associated with her age. I get to see her once a month when I head up north, and I've got as much to thank her for from when I was growing up as I have my grandad. They just had very different ideas on what the responsibilities of a grandparent were!
( Evil Bastardo, Fri 3 Jun 2011, 16:41, Reply)