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My Grandad
He was a good man
Today is Christmas day being a while since he has left us time flies but it's also good to remember the good times we had.
Grandad retired early well in his 50s don't know how I think he got lucky with the stock market he was big investor & would constantly be looking at Teletext for share updates and in the morning paper. Those who do not know teletext it was a text news source before the internet. Thats also where he got football updates from the English Premier League Sunday games.
He was never rich like modest home very modest living never spent money on dumb. Never consumed well perhaps little too much TV but not mind-numbing TV. Grandma would watch Coro Street Grandad left the room
He was in WW2 in the British Merchant navy, so he travelled when young seen a lot
His retirement consisted of.
Sundays in his garage with his best mate beers and the radio going in the background. Good old talkback
Watching Yacht racing.
Working in his garden. He loved his garden spent a lot of time in it built a greenhouse for his tomato's never grew anything crazy off the norm but grew lots of vegetables. The standard Peas lettuces carrots potatos radish to name a few. Fruit trees galore Plum trees Apricots Grape…
