We have just had friends on board for two weeks, who are preparing a guest blog, but our tragic news is the sudden death of my beloved uncle Hereward, last week. He was only 70, and apparently fighting fit; he had just bicycled 150 miles to Copenhagen as part of the Christian Aid delegation to the climate change conference.
He was a marvellous, kind, loving man, generous-hearted, opinionated, and determined to make the world a better place. I do admire him for not taking the easy and obvious path, but working hard all his life for what he thought was right. He had the rare ability to hold strong views – on a wide variety of subjects – but not to antagonise those who didn’t agree with him, and a fearless determination to put his Christian principles into practice on every possible occasion, while never taking himself totally seriously. He threw himself whole-heartedly into everything he did, from bullying Norwich Council into changing the paint they put on telephone junction boxes in order to make fly-posting impossible, to leading the Lib Dem group on the same Norwich Council twenty years later.
The last time we were all together was at my cousin Arthur’s wedding in Colorado this August, at which Hereward officiated. We had a lovely happy family time, helped as ever by Hereward’s easy good humour and never-failing ability to see the best in people.
He was, in short, a good man, and we shall miss him very much.
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