♈ no fool

it's my Pops birthday today:

he was my stepdad until one day we all adopted his surname:

he is my Pops and we always have fun:

I used to help him on his milkround at the weekends:

get up, deliver bottles of milk, collect money:

we would have fried eggs sandwiches in little cafes:

and drink tea from a flask in fingerless gloves:

in his spare time he collected stamps:

poring over his stanley gibbons books:

sorting through the little squared pieces of paper:

placing them in his special albums:

once he bought a lot at an auction:

a huge bag of stamps and some cameras:

he gave one to me:

I loved clicking the shutter and looking through the viewfinder:

this is it:

it started my collection:

it makes me smile when I see him playing the same silly

games he used to play with us ~ now with Libbie and my nephews:

they haven't eaten purple rice pudding yet though:

I have been a step parent and I am a parent:

it's not easy:

I know that:

and I know how lucky I am to still have him in my life:

thank you Pops:

for many days of love and laughter:

❤