When I was a kid, my dad used to buy me balsa wood and tissue model aeroplanes for Christmas, and we'd sit down on boxing day to build them. More precisely, I would watch as my dad built them and cover them in tissue and dope. We'd then go to a local park where we would turn them back into something like the original collection of balsa that came in the box.
As I got older, I would become more involved in the building and the models got bigger, rubber bands were replaced with cox .49 glow plug engines and I would fit radio controls to prevent the inevitable impact with mother earth. And then one year, I bought my dad a rubber powered balsa model for Christmas. We had come full circle.
Anyway, enough sentimental back story.
My sister in the UK had a bit of a whip round and we bought my dad a model boat for his birthday - January the 10th. It arrived about a month ago, and the bastard has done this. He's already miles ahead of us. What a git.
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| Ok, it's only a little one, but he's catching up. |
You have made our Dad's day! He even rang me on my MOBILE TELEPHONE to tell me to read it!!
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Now you should tell him the good news that he has to row it down the Waikato River.
ReplyDeleteWhip round??! Nobody's given me any money!
ReplyDeleteEnjoying the blog.
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