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It’s Dads birthday today. He wasn’t much for m

It’s Dads birthday today. He wasn’t much for marking it but he was very fond of cake and his eldest sister Nan always phoned him or sent a card and he did the same for her every year.

He was born this day in 1933, the eldest of 8 children, he would have been 90 today. When we were young he used to run Bingo nights for us kids and other children in the village; a couple of smarties for a line, a mars bar for a full house. I don’t know how many bingo nights we had but in my memory it seemed like a lot. They were simpler times with few activities for children in 1970’s Northern Ireland. It was the being together that mattered to us back then. Dad was always busy, teacher by day, community person by night and all the time a father to a growing large, family. There was always a meeting to go to or a ‘house’ to visit. He would chat and talk for hours, covering history, politics, who was related to whom, funny things that had happened to him, laughs and more laughs, the nature of people, their characters, knowing the people, you have to 'know the people’. Some of us children would tag along and those small ears would be wide open. He was an organiser by nature. Not only in the local community but at home too. He relished a day with a crowd of noisy children showing us how to ‘win’ the turf in the bog or at the yearly gathering of spuds in the cold autumn days, shouting down the field if there was any messing going on. We all learnt that life did not hand out free rides. You worked for what you got. There were rotas for household daily tasks to help Mum and ‘a who’s on the payroll’ question when there were other bigger jobs to be tackled. Dad was a fair minded man. When we children had arguments he would call the waring parties together to hear both sides of the story. The settlement always arrived at by mutual agreement of all the participants, the negotiations overseen by Dad. He was no push over. (Contd below)

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My first reel or is it a jig?😃

My first reel or is it a jig?😃

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