Your vocabulary of idioms – having an idiom for every event - every occasion.
Your thrashing me in Woolworths - I threw a tantrum about wanting a toy.
Your sneaking into my bedroom on Christmas Eve - me peeping to learn Santa was YOU.
Your collection of tottering high heeled shoes - the ‘Imelda Marcos’ of Timperley.
Your obvious pride when I passed the 11+ exam.
Your horror when I said I wanted to leave Grammar School and go to ‘art’ school.
Your retiring from (and returning to) work - four times!
Your rubbing Vick into my wheezing chest - until my eyes watered.
Your making Julie and I eat your ‘over-cooked’ veggies - dad declining!
Your un-contained joy at winning our first (tiny) fridge in a raffle.
Your upset when I fell off my tricycle and broke my arm.
Your globetrotting on exotic holidays and ‘discovering’ Hong Kong - before me!
Your strength, dignity and resolve - when Charlie (dad) passed away.