and making stuff new out of old stuff and interesting things he did.
you said your dad was a carpenter. did your mum have any jobs at all?
no, my dad died when i was just a youngster… i was six, and my mum was a farmer and she had a little bit of land so, frankly, i worked with my mother. she decided that for the war effort she was going to plant a quarter of an acre of potatoes and it was up to me and my brothers to dig the field for a quarter of an acre for the war effort, the potatoes!
what were your family’s personalities like?
my mum 