who could resist...

..a lad in a uniform.
This is my dad in 1950 when he was a ship's doctor. Looking very splendid in his tropical whites, healthily tanned and happy, this was a studio shot taken in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe (then Northern Rhodesia).
He died peacefully today, some 63 years later, with my sister close at hand and wonderful nurses and doctors easing him to wherever he may be now.

I will miss his feisty, and stoic, Scottishness. His resigned eye rolling when all 'the women' were around and my boys will miss his knowledge and wisdom they were lucky enough to have in their lives from very early on.