(with sincere thanks to Colin's brother-in-law, Ian Johnson) My early memories of Colin are rather bitty. I must have been a little nervous when Jan first took me visiting as her boy-friend but he and Pam made me warmly welcome. Then there were family times at their house, as well as at the senior Mackies’ – in Golders Green and later Barnet. These I remember vividly through photographs, in which Colin seldom appeared because of course he was the photographer. Likewise a week our two growing families (just three daughters between us then) spent on the Isle of Wight, and a day on a canal-boat in Cheshire (all six children by then). I’ve clearer memories, even without photos, of the twelve years Jan and I spent in Huddersfield, with Grandma Myrtle in her stylish granny flat. How she looked forward to Colin’s visits, occasionally with Pam! She always wanted his advice on money, sound recording, etc – topics on which Jan and I were not much help. As she grew weaker and more impatient, he was so gently patient and sensible with her – qualities he really needed when it was clear that Jan could cope with caring for her no longer and she had to be persuaded into a retirement home in Finchley where he could keep an eye on her. I think Colin and Jan always got on well, but in childhood with a little distance due to the six-year age difference. That ceased to matter in adulthood, and with the years they got to be increasingly good chums. I treasure a photo (which I hope I can manage to scan and upload) of them together sometime in the nineties in Shirley. I can’t remember what they were up to, but they were clearly enjoying being silly together. He visited us several times in Hebden Bridge both before and during her final illness and cleverly managed to be there when she died. Having his support then was so welcome to us all. Contacts since then have been bitty again but he has shown a touchingly close interest in her twin granddaughters whom sadly she didn’t live to see. Overall I’ve really valued Colin as a brother-in-law and friend.