Here's lookin' at you kid...

My brother moved to Switzerland 6 months ago and our mum misses him very much. When I popped in unannounced for a visit tonight, there was a pile of old pictures on the sofa - she'd obviously been looking through them.

With only a year separating us, we were very close as kids. Boy , did we get up to all kinds of skullduggery. The passage of 40 or so years gives my mum the ability to laugh at what must have given her sleepless nights.

It was lovely to reminisce tonight and I thought, in tribute to my older brother, who's 49 now but only 1 when this was taken, this would be a great blip for today.

What a bonny big boy he was. And a great big brother he is x