Dad stories"Do anything good for your birthday?" one of your friendly B3TA moderator team asked in one of those father/son phone calls that last two minutes. "Yep," he said, "Your mum." Tell us about dads, lack of dad and being a dad.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 25 Nov 2010, 11:50)
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My dads dadOk, slightly cheating.
He was a legend. Grew up in Yorkshire where it was either the mines or the army. He joined the latter at 16. Was one of the last off the beach at Dunkirk and first on at D-Day. It was ways fists first then talking later, but when I was born all that changed.
He was the most generous, giving person I knew. I used to love hearing his stories as a child. He had so many. One of my favourites was about his youth. As I said he grew up in a mining town. Every friday his old man would gather the three brothers and march them to the end of the street. They would then fight it out with other kids. If victorious, the old man would have his beer paid for.
He also threw the three of them in the canal to 'teach them to swim'....
Will post some more tales later.
(, Thu 25 Nov 2010, 18:37, Reply)
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