Joker Joe Has Left And Gone Away
Karl Webster on Aug 24th 2010 06:45 pm |
My Dad died in 1988. I think. I was in my second year at University. It may have been 1989.
In 1996 I was going through one of those phases where I was trying to make money by getting letters published in fatuous magazines and I remembered a letter I had read in The Sun when I was a child. (We used to have The Sun delivered to our house when I was a child. Imagine that.) So I sent my version of that letter in to Take a Break with a picture of my father clowning around.
My letter was published and I was very pleased.
That is my father. He looks like Syd Little.
My father’s name, incidentally, was not Joe. My father’s name was Leslie. On the whole he was a bit of an arse – drunk, paranoid, frightened and angry. But – it has to be said – he did have his moments.
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I don’t know why. But that made me really happy and sad. My stepfather died recently – we were really close. I wish I’d had the creativity to remember him in such a way
You couldn’t make it up!
Aw, thank you, James. I’m sorry for your loss.
Malden! You really couldn’t. Unless you had Photoshop or something.
I don’t really know what to say but wanted to very clumsily say that I loved this post and, like James above, it made me feel both happy and sad. Bittersweet even.
My mother in law committed suicide last year and we still don’t know how to remember her or what to do, so I really like reading stories like this one. I feel a bit inspired now, in fact!
Melanie x
Nothing clumsy about it, MG. Thank you, and again, I’m sorry for your loss. That must be one of the most difficult things to deal with. My dad tried to kill himself too actually, about a year before he died of natural causes. Then he lost his mind for a bit. Hmmm. Anyway, I wish you well and thanks for dropping by. x
“You couldn’t make it up!”
Yes he could!
Nice one Karla,
You were very enterprising as a young ‘un.
I used to write in to Whizzer and Chips as a kid but I never got my letters published.
XQRG