@theoldmortuary we have been without Dads for quite a long while. So it was a surprise to us that today was Fathers Day. We were at a party recently when people were excitedly discussing their grown up children visiting at the weekend.

” How lovely” we said ” Why are they coming this weekend”

“Fathers Day!”, said with incredulity, was the chorus.

It says a lot about targeted advertising that we are no longer made sad by being bombarded by advertisers trying to sell us gifts for our deceased parents. Post Covid it seems that people are making more effort to mark these days, not with gifts but with visits. Family time is more precious when it has been denied or not easy for 2-3 years.

Now we get to witness ‘ Fathering’ from a different direction. Our three granddaughters have two excellent Dads, their mothers are excellent too, but that is for another day.

Fathers Day is, for us, a day of celebrating a job well done, by the next generation.

However my photo archive has failed me. To illustrate this blog I wanted pictures of Seahorses, creatures where the Dad really does the hard graft of actually giving birth. They are not so good at barbeques or reading books but, giving birth! That is quite a good task to lift.

All my photograph archive held, was a horse by the sea.

Or an Apron in a shop window.

Spitalfields Life

Link above to another Fathers Day blog. So beautifully written that I had to share.