Gill entered my life when I was 2. As far as I was concerned at that time, she was a most unwelcome addition to my family as I was no longer the centre of attention and she captured all the limelight (or so it seemed to me). As we grew out of infancy and into childhood, I used to devise any plan that would get her into trouble. I used to pull her hair, eat her sweets, hide her dolls, blame her for things that I had done, grass her up and generally be most unpleasant. What the reader of this must realise is, as her older brother, this was my job as well as being my duty. As we both reached puberty, our different interests meant that we did not mix in the same circles. She did girlie things whilst my activities were much more macho – toilet humour and the occasional cigarette that I could nick from Mum seemed at the time to be very manly. Our respective marriages meant that we saw even less of each other although I am very pleased to say that by that time, we had grown much closer together emotionally. It was not long before she had made me into a very proud uncle of Peter and Debbie, two delightful children who have grown into two of the finest people you could ever wish to meet. Sadly her first marriage ended. It was not however all doom and gloom as she met and later married Ian and they remained devoted to each other. Apart from being my Brother-in-Law, I am very pleased to say that Ian and I also became great mates. Ian also had two lovely children, Tracey and Craig and I then became the proud uncle of four. Like Peter and Debbie, they also developed into super people, all four of them being an absolute credit to Gill and Ian. Gill and I remained very close. Apart from regular weekend and Christmas/Bank Holiday visits to each other’s houses, we spoke on the telephone most weekends. She was also very great friends with my wife Rita who has always maintained that if Gill had not been her Sister-in-Law, she would have been her best friend. It is fairly obvious that Gill was a lovely person to know and will be sadly missed by not only her family, but her wide circle of friends. I cannot begin to describe the grief that I have suffered since Gill was so cruelly taken from us in the early hours of last Tuesday. There is now a huge hole in my life that can never be filled. She was my great great friend who I loved very much. May you rest in peace little Sister.