Mum called me this morning.
She had been to mass (as she does each morning) and she wanted to share a little moment with me.
The gospel that morning had been about the two blind men that Jesus had cured in Galilee by touching their eyes.
Mum told me that when she heard this she had to do everything in her power to keep the laughter in, as she instead was thinking of the rhyme that dad used always share with us and all the grand kids.
He used deliver this rhyme with actions and funny gestures and in some ways it summed up everything that this gorgeous man was all about. He had a great sense of humour, he adored children and would do anything to make them laugh.
One fine day in the middle of the night,
Two blind men got up to fight,
Back to back they faced each other,
Drew their swords and shot each other,
One was blind and the other couldn’t, see
So they chose a dummy for a referee.
A blind man went to see fair play,
A dumb man went to shout “hooray!”
A paralysed donkey passing by, kicked the blind man in the eye,
Knocked him through a nine inch wall,
Into a dry ditch and drowned them all,
A deaf policeman heard the noise,
And came to arrest the two dead boys,
If you don’t believe this story’s true,
Ask the blind man he saw it too!
This was a tall tale that has been passed down from generation to generation and everyone seems to have a slightly different version.
Mum thought of dad as she does all of the time and she couldn’t stop laughing.
She missed him and misses him every day. She misses the simple chit chat the most and of course, his humour.
He wasn’t there with her, as he always had been but of course he was, he always is.
Mum misses him, we all do
Greg
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