Aged 7 months: Family comes first: Here I am with my adored grandfather Bill Mooney, who fought in two World Wars. At the time my parents were living with their two children in my grandparents’ three- bedroom rented house because there was so little council accommodation in bombed-out Liverpool. Times were hard for them all — but it was here, as a baby, I learnt my first important life lesson: that family (for better, for worse) trumps everything