Today is the summer solstice, longest day of the year...
Also, and I hope coincidentally, Fathers' Day. I can just imagine fathers everywhere gathering to set the date of their day and deciding to hold it when it's likely that barbeques can be invoked and there's plenty of daylight and sunshine to enable 'lounging about on the lawn with a cider'. While Mothers' Day is generally in a month when it still feels like the middle of winter and nobody on earth would want outdoor food, besides, it's dark at about six p m and the most celebratory drink anybody feels like is a sturdy hot chocolate.
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| How Mothers' Day should look. Vast quantities of champagne and chocolate not pictured. |
Anyway. Happy Fathers' Day to all fathers out there, even if it is unfair that they can celebrate by sitting outside in the sun rather than having to gather all the family pets to their chest just to keep warm. And big hugs to everyone who is missing their Dad today...
4 comments:
Move to the US and you can celebrate Mother's Day in warm, sunny May with as much champagne and chocolate as desired!
It would be a bit of a big upheaval, just to be able to sit outside on Mothers' Day though. Plus, I wouldn't be able to afford to take the chilcren with me, so...bit of an own goal there, really.
I do like that photo of you Jane, surrounded my members of your extended family - you deserve vast quantities of champagne and chocolate for all the people and animals you look after!
I also enjoyed the 'torpedo' observation. Probably true for me too if my dad was still around. Here's to our much-missed dads... who never had to read our books.
Not sure whether to accept the Father's Day wishes or focus on the calendar complaint. A fellow from the Guardian had a good piece on fatherhood, speaking for a lot of us "Dads" Being together with family is the best thing.
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