{"id":168689,"date":"2022-12-21T16:14:28","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T16:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=168689"},"modified":"2022-12-21T16:14:28","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T16:14:28","slug":"neighbour-left-presents-after-he-died-at-87-for-girl-2-next-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/neighbour-left-presents-after-he-died-at-87-for-girl-2-next-door\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighbour left presents after he died at 87 for girl, 2, next door"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Kind-hearted neighbour left wrapped Christmas presents after he died at 87 for two-year-old girl next door to open every year until she is 16<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ken Watson lived near Owen and Caroline Williams for last two years of his life<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>When Ken died, his daughter Jenny delivered a sack full of presents for Cadi<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The first gift Cadi opened in 2018 was a book &#8211; Christmas Eve At The Mellops<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>But Cadi, now six, is looking forward to opening Ken&#8217;s fifth gift on Saturday\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A kind-hearted neighbour left 14 years worth of wrapped Christmas presents to a two-year-old girl next door\u00a0after he died.<\/p>\n<p>Ken Watson, who was 87, lived near to Owen and Caroline Williams for the last two years of his life and befriended their daughter Cadi.<\/p>\n<p>When he died, they were surprised when his daughter Jenny delivered a sack full of presents for Cadi &#8211; one a year to open until she is 16.<\/p>\n<p>The family were &#8216;knocked off their feet&#8217; by his generosity and started a tradition of Cadi opening her &#8216;Ken gift&#8217; every Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/12\/21\/15\/65816351-11562337-image-a-1_1671634957580.jpg\" height=\"634\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Ken Watson, who was 87, lived near to Owen and Caroline Williams for the last two years of his life and befriended their daughter Cadi (pictured)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/12\/21\/15\/65816353-11562337-image-a-2_1671634960611.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>When he died, they were surprised when his daughter Jenny delivered a sack full of presents for Cadi &#8211; one a year to open until she is 16. Pictured: Ken<\/p>\n<p>The first gift Cadi opened in 2018 was a book, Christmas Eve At The Mellops, by Tomi Ungerer.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019 there was a cuddly goat, a train set spelling &#8216;Cadi&#8217; was 2020&#8217;s gift and last year she opened a giant Crayola colouring book.<\/p>\n<p>All the presents are wrapped so the family from Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, have no idea what&#8217;s inside.<\/p>\n<p>But Cadi, now six, is looking forward to opening Ken&#8217;s fifth gift on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Owen is keeping Ken&#8217;s kindness alive by sharing each gift online to encourage people to &#8216;\u00a3BeMoreKen&#8217; and get to know their neighbours.<\/p>\n<p>Owen, 44, a managing director of a social agency, from Barry, South Wales, said: &#8216;It was a rainy windy night and I was getting Cadi ready for bed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;There was a knock at the door and it was my neighbour&#8217;s daughter, Jenny, clutching a large bin bag.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I thought it was rubbish that needed to go out, but she said these are the gifts my dad has put away for Cadi.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/12\/21\/15\/65816365-11562337-image-a-3_1671634982645.jpg\" height=\"476\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>In 2019 there was a cuddly goat, a train set spelling &#8216;Cadi&#8217; was 2020&#8217;s gift and last year she opened a giant Crayola colouring book<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/12\/21\/15\/65816455-11562337-image-a-4_1671635134056.jpg\" height=\"634\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>All the presents are wrapped so the family from Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, have no idea what&#8217;s inside<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It was confounding, magical, ridiculous and heart-warming. It knocked me off my feet but in the best way possible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It was the feeling that gets you in the throat, when your brain is processing quicker than your heart can take it.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Ken told the family he would live until the age of 100 so had bought enough presents to last until Cadi&#8217;s 16th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I took in the sack and started getting them out, and they kept coming and there were 14 in total,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They were all beautifully wrapped in thin traditional paper, the kind your grandparents use. We were all blown away by it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Being the Twitter user I am, I started tweeting about it and I asked if my wife and I should open now and rewrap them or lucky dip until 2032.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>On Twitter, 67,000 users voted and a resounding 68 per cent said the parents should do a lucky dip each year until Cadi reaches the age of 16.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We couldn&#8217;t resist opening one on the night as there was a tiny tear in it; it was a beautiful olive coloured book called Christmas Eve At The Mellops,&#8217; Owen said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/12\/21\/15\/65816461-11562337-image-a-5_1671635138813.jpg\" height=\"476\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>But Cadi, now six, is looking forward to opening Ken&#8217;s fifth gift on Saturday<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/12\/21\/15\/65816465-11562337-image-a-6_1671635146277.jpg\" height=\"476\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Owen is keeping Ken&#8217;s kindness alive by sharing each gift online to encourage people to &#8216;\u00a3BeMoreKen&#8217; and get to know their neighbours<\/p>\n<p>Owen added: &#8216;Ken was a former salvage diver, seaman carpenter and baker.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I remember him playing his accordion at night and sometimes still think I can hear his &#8220;oompah&#8221; music.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The first time I met him was in September 2015. I wanted to give him a bottle and say hello.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He was on top of a ladder at the age of 83, in a blue boiler suit painting. The ladder was like a pogo stick, he was 20ft up in the air.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I looked across to Lloyd, who lives across the street and we both mouthed &#8220;what the heck?&#8221;&#8216;<\/p>\n<p>The family dog, Wci, pronounced Wookie, was one of Ken&#8217;s best friends and their bond started when he gave him a chocolate digestive, which she isn&#8217;t supposed to eat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The dog went wild like he had a magic pheromone,&#8217; Owen said. &#8216;She fell in love with him &#8211; she would destroy the plants in the garden at the spot where she would see him.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/12\/21\/15\/65816475-11562337-image-a-7_1671635191460.jpg\" height=\"476\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Ken told the family he would live until the age of 100 so had bought enough presents to last until Cadi&#8217;s 16th birthday<\/p>\n<p>Ken didn&#8217;t have any grandchildren of his own and adored Cadi as if she were his own granddaughter.<\/p>\n<p>For her first birthday, he gifted her a giant cuddly Lion, called Elvis, and he went on to buy them for every child on the street costing \u00a320 a pop.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I went into a lovely local toy shop called Giggles and I happened to mention to the owner that our neighbour had bought Cadi one of the lions for her birthday,&#8217; Owen said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;She replied &#8220;was it Ken?&#8221; She then told me he came in after seeing them in the window and decided to buy them for all the children in the street. He was a Santa-esque figure.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Ken also became fond of Owen&#8217;s partner, Caroline, 38, an assistant head teacher.<\/p>\n<p>When Ken passed away in 2018 from cancer, his neighbours were devastated.<\/p>\n<p>Owen now hopes to inspire others to get to know their neighbours this Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8216;We all have a neighbour, they live above, below and besides you.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You never know what doors might be opened by opening a door.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11562337\/Neighbour-left-presents-died-girl-2-door-open-year-16.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kind-hearted neighbour left wrapped Christmas presents after<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":168688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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