Our New Life in the Country: So Proud of My Dad........

Sunday, 19 June 2011

So Proud of My Dad........

I'm SO proud of my dad, I had a wonderful childhood. Family holidays recorded in photos, pushing hired pushchairs across the sands, not wanting to sit in it because it wasn't 'mine'.

Here I'm 13, posing with my Dad, after my lovely Nana had just given me a set of pearls, she said I was all grown up, a 'young lady', my Dad agreed and wanted a picture. He was proud of me then, he still is, our feelings are reciprocal.

Meeting his second Grandson for the first time, cradling the next generation in his careful hands. Bringing back memories for both of us. Now his Grandsons tower above him, but to them he will always be the bigger man. The one who helped shape their childhood, the one they respect, admire and love.

My Dad....I am so very, very proud of the man you were, the man you are and the man you will yet be.

Happy Fathers Day

Your daughter

Sue xx

5 comments:

Helen19 June 2011 at 18:42
Your tribute is one of the loveliest I've read ..
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Unknown19 June 2011 at 19:29
A wonderful tribute Sue!
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Sandies' Patch19 June 2011 at 23:37
Nice tribute to your wonderful Dad.

Sandie xx
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BadPenny20 June 2011 at 09:32
That's lovely Sue.
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Anonymous20 June 2011 at 14:41
Lovely heartfelt words Sue.xxx
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This was my Blog, just me writing about our day to day life learning all about and then living the smallholding life. First we started on a farm in Oxfordshire, then we moved to a smaller place in Berkshire (both in England) and then we found a place of our very own at the bottom of a hillside in North Wales. Along for the ride were all our various animals, and we ended up with just our dogs, Suky and Mavis, our cat Ginger .... who secretly thinks he's one of the canine gang, a sheep called Ethel who wandered in off the road and stayed... and a roving band of egg laying chickens that live cheek by jowl with the local wildlife.

We grow our own fruit and vegetables, selling surplus plants and edibles at the gate. We sell the eggs the chickens lay, we reuse, recycle and rethink ... and life ticks over at a pace that suits us.

It was simply the wild and wacky ramblings of a 50 something townie turned country girl called Sue, who lost her heart to a sailor and started a new life in the country .... many years ago. On a path that took us from Cumbria to Oxfordshire, to Berkshire and then we found our home at the bottom of a wet and windy Welsh hillside by a busy main road.

Pull up a chair, grab a coffee and relax into a world of dogs, cats, chickens, polytunnels and veggies with the occasional grass munching sheep thrown in for good measure.

Sue xx

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