Folks

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Date: 07 December 2006 13:44:32

Yesterday we went to see the folks, no not Mr & Mrs Folks from Swansea, my parents. Its always great to see them as it usually invloves laughter and free food. Not that we just see them for those reasons!

One of the things I enjoy is the little "jobs" they have for me to do. This can be anything from downloading photos from a digital camera to knocking holes in things. Just as we were preparing to leave mum announced that she wanted me to download some pics and dad had a little job he needed doing as well. I try to keep it to one job per visit, this way I know I'll be invited back.

Yesterday's job was to set up an electronic code on a new piece of electronic equiptment that they'd bought. I'm now looking forward to the phone call in the middle of the night when they call to ask for the code.

This is one of my favourite memories of my father:

One day he was wondering around the downstairs of our old house. For some reason he was carrying a chair round, looking at the top of doors and muttering to himself. "I know I put it here somewhere," he said.

It turned out that he'd written the pin number of is cashpoint card on top of one of the doors and it had now disappeared, probably sunk into the wood after so long. You see he never used it and his memory for numbers wasn't the best, so he'd written it somewhere safe where no one would have looked.

Its a good job he has a sense of humour or we'd be in trouble for laughing when this sort of thing happened.