Never forget..........

[DirtyHarry]

For a railwayman, he was a well read bloke. I've still got a lot of his books, Burns, Tennyson, Scott, The Ilyad, The Odyssey, Gogol, Gorky, Dostoevsky, Bunyan, CH Spurgeon, JC Ryle, Walt Whitman. A good union man too.

Your Dad was a living definition of that phrase, a gentleman and a scholar, IWW.

I can say that without having had the privelige to know him, because I too once knew a man like him.

People like that could buy and sell the dense planks who become 'managers' in Royal Mail mate either in intelligence or integrity.

As vigilante just said, very true, IWW.