I’m way behind on the photo prompts and the end of the year is almost upon us, so expect lots of random pics with tenuous links to the prompts (same old, same old).
The combination of Family and Christmas gives me the opportunity to post some photos of my beloved dear old dead Dad. He died on Christmas Eve 2000, which was not great, but now our visit to the cemetery at lunch time every Christmas Eve is a signal for the festivities to begin. Dad would have loved that joke.
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I am a little fat. I like food; what can I say? I have dull hair: mousey. I don’t wear much make-up and have no need of a dressing table. If I look like a bag lady, I chose my own clothes. If I look nice, the Hub picked them for me. Despite all this, I am a little vain. This photograph is from 2003. I had to go back that far to find one of me that I liked. But I don’t really care: my husband still thinks I’m beautiful and if he doesn’t, he loves me enough to lie about it. I’m lucky. I have two boys. They never lie to me. Still, you can't have everything.
The Laughing Housewife 
Rose’s Chocolates eh? your Dad looks as though he was a really jolly man. It is sad that he had to go so early in his life….Did he like Maltesers too?
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If it was sweet, he ate it!
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Looks as though he had your sense of humour (or vice versa)
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My greatest influence 🙂
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Lovely happy pics.
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They are 😀
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Your Mom must have kept a hot house for your Dad to be unattired in December. So sad to look at the old photos. I can barely do it anymore. Nice that you can comemorate his passing with a graveside ceremony. Something like the El dia de la Muerte (Day of the Dead) festivities here on All Hallows Eve. Dianne
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It’s in South Africa, so the height of summer. My Dad wore as little as possible for as long as possible – in the house, of course!
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Your dad seemed like a very happy, jolly person with a great sense of humour – I guess that’s where you get yours from!
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He was and it is 🙂
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Your Dad was very handsome and he looks like he was the life of the party!
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He was, and my parents threw a lot of parties when I was growing up.
At one of my childhood birthday parties he had a microphone and those old two wheel tape things. He had us all singing. Then he accidentally dropped the microphone on a boy’s head. He rubbed the head, rubbed the microphone, said ‘Sorry, Mike’ and got the biggest laugh of the day. Kids loved him.
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Nice tribute. 🙂 You had him on your header for a while I seem to remember.
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I did! Well remembered!
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This was the phot you used to have on your blog header. I always wondered who it was 🙂
PS nice christmas background
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That’s right! My Dad loved to laugh and he shared it around.
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I like how you choose to look at things in a joyful way. I dig your style Ms. Tilly!
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It makes the tough bearable 🙂
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RIP Tilly’s dad 🙂 xxx
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Thank you Cin xx
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Looks like he is having a good time (also looks a lot like my hubby – he is always going without his shirt 😉 ).
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He was a man of simple tastes – food, laughter, family and a good book.
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Looks like you had a great dad, and found a wonderful way to remember him.
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I did 🙂
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Sometimes you can tell you would like people without meeting them, but just from their picture. This is one of those instances for me.
I wish I could thank him for bringing your sense of humor into the world.
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Aw, bless you!
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Now I know where you got your sense of humor! Love those pictures of your dad. 🙂
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Thanks 😀
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Nice that he is still always part of the festivities!
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He’d like that!
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The source of your sunny, funny disposition 😀 Why do Dads have to go? Don’t they know we need them as much now as when we were 3!!
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Jolly selfish of them to die, isn’t it?
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