This year would have been Dad’s 105th birthday on August 30th and his 67th wedding anniversary. I celebrated my 25th wedding anniversary on April 9th this year (the same day that Mum and Dad were married) and every year I still long to have had the opportunity to have shared my amazing children with him. He would have been a wonderful grandfather had life allowed him that opportunity and I see some of him in all of my boys. We have recently returned from a holiday to Wales and it always makes me sentimental as I drive through the valleys. This year we have a wonderful family session on a giant paddleboard and I couldn’t help thinking how much Dad would have relished the experience as he was a true water babe! We laughed and enjoyed a fantastic, very wet and noisy, two hours. Dad, thank you for teaching me the importance of having family. I know you are looking over my boys and I hope you are proud of the five wonderful young men they are becoming. They may never have met you, but I have talked about you throughout their lives and they are very strongly connected to you and your welsh heritage. I hope I have instilled in them the life lessons you instilled in me so that they may be as compassionate and generous as you always were. Love you Dad.xx

Three generations of Walsh men.