Off to work in my local Bibliotheque in a couple of hours where I'll be entertaining the crowds till 8 pm with various shuffles and pleasant remarks.In his semi-retirement my father used spend a bit of time in his local library. A rather severe character who harboured a lot of memories of blood and guts he once commented to a daughter in law after ordering a meal that the waitress was "unnecessarily cheerful".
I remember him smiling and laughing only a few times; once when one of his sons who had difficulty reading as a child married the niece of the heavy weight boxing champion of New South Wales.
There is much too much unnecessary cheerfulness about - your father must have been a very great man.
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