Around 50 attended Hutcliffe Wood today for Graham’s funeral. As simple service by the vicar who didn’t know much about Graham. He wasn’t the only one, it seems few people did!
Graham was a mystery to most, 67 years old, lived in Bradda all his life. He worked at HSE, enjoyed football, badminton, birding, photography and the fells which he ran with Charlie, the savage Border collie.
On a personal note Graham and I had our own battle in races, the rest of the field were irrelevant. It was all about which one of us would beat the other, but never celebrated afterwards in the pub as Graham did not drink.
Latterly, Graham ran the results programme for Longshaw (and other events) for many years, it will make things tricky for us all without him.
The Vicar read ‘The Dash’ and Graham left to the sounds of Ludovico Einaudi’s – I giorni.
JF