Born 10 years apart there was little in the way of sibling rivalry, Andy always looked up to Keith, literally.


Some of the earliest memories of his brother include the arrival of their first fridge, which he introduced to Andy by throwing ice cubes in the bath, while Andy was in it!


One day, Keith (aged 15) decided to get the old pram out of the garage, and proceeded to push five year old Andy around the garden at 90 miles an hour, he took the grimacing and screaming to mean Andy was enjoying it, so repeated this numerous times! This was good preparation for later years when being driven around even faster in Keith’s red MGB sports car.


They played numerous games of all sorts and he occasionally let Andy win, but couldn’t overcome his competitive streak in everything he did, so it wasn’t until later in life that Andy found he was beatable at shove half penny.


In 1966, when England won the World Cup, Keith decided Andy should attend his first football match, so he took Andy to the Dell to watch Southampton vs Spurs, Jimmy Greaves and so on, Spurs won 1-0 but from that day on Andy became a lifelong Saints fan, in spite of not seeing much of the match as it was standing only and he was just a boy at that time.


Much later on, in 1999, Karen and Andy were involved in a serious car accident, so Doctor Barnard prescribed some sun and warmth, booking 10 days in Egypt with himself and Ann. They had an incredible time, getting into all sorts of scrapes with the locals, and it was the start of a 17 year period of travelling the world together to exotic places, and enjoying further Indiana Jones type experiences. This included getting lost in the Jordanian desert, going over the Andes in a vehicle that spent most of the time with its rear end over a precipice, camping by the Amazon river and getting bitten by a million sand flies - let alone worrying about the orifice fish and Paraná lurking in the water, driving a 4x4 up the Guilitola loop in Ecuador with Keith administering the remedy for altitude sickness, going by rickety train for hours in Burma sitting on a hard seat waiting for the common derailment to happen, only to find themselves sleeping in a shack of a hotel when arriving at their destination.


Andy would like to say thanks for all the experiences Keith, he wouldn't have missed them for the world.