Looking through the photos, I can hear Liam's voice in my head very clearly and it is hard to believe I won't see him again. Liam was the funniest guy I know and we had such a laugh together. His humour is so ingrained in me that I think I am still using some of his jokes or Middlesborough catchphrases even though I have been living away in Canada for the past 17 years - unfortunately some of them are a bit too blue to repeat here! Liam and I met in our first few days at university at Imperial College in 1990 where we were in the same hall of residence (Falmouth-Keogh). Later on we shared a flat and even a room together. One story that comes to mind from that time was when we tried to cook a Christmas dinner and invited our friends, especially the female ones, and unfortunately gave them salmonella. We had many adventures together including going on holiday in the south of France after graduation (thanks Stuart for the loan of your parents' place!) and got false tattoos to look good on the beach, going to Egypt and sailing down the Nile in a Falucca which cost $10 for two (or was it three?) days where you wouldn't know what millennium it was, let alone century, and the captain was called Captain Cook (actually the food was good...). We also spent an amazing week sailing in the Caribbean on a yacht where we had no license and only dinghy experience but Liam and Sarah's NYC sailing Club Membership so impressed the proprietors they let us take their nicest boat. And then there were some skiing trips where I'd have to go ahead and clear the slopes so Liam and Stuart could race each other (and time each other using what were at the time new fangled GPS watches - Liam loved gadgets). The best story of all is the "Red Wellies Story", which has become a legend in my own family, and comes ultimately from Liam's parents I guess: when Liam was very young, maybe 3 years old, he was given a new pair of red wellington boots. He loved them so much that he wore them all the time and when his parents went into his room one night to check on him they realized he was going to bed with them on and there they were sticking out of the covers. So whenever anybody in my family tells a cute story we all shout `Red Wellies!' Rest in peace Liam. You enriched my life and I am going to miss you a lot.