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:
❤
