How a Christmas knock at the door changed Rob Parsons' life forever

When a homeless man arrived on his doorstep one Christmas, Rob Parsons never dreamed that he would stay for more than 45 years. Or that Ronnie would impact their life so significantly 

Two days before Christmas and the doorbell wasn’t working properly.

I sometimes imagine how different our lives would have been if the man outside hadn’t decided to bang on the door, or we had chosen not to answer, believing it to be the return of the small boy we had generously rewarded the previous evening just to stop him murdering ‘Once in royal David’s city’.

But answer it we did.