어바웃타임 #01

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xCY0e-mUf8 

 

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I always knew we

were a fairly odd family.

First there was me.

Too tall. Too skinny.

Too orange.

 

My mum was lovely,

but not like other mums.

 

There was

something solid about her.

Something rectangular,

busy and unsentimental.

 

Her fasion icon was the Queen.

 

Dad, well, he was more normal. He always

seemed to have time on his hands.

 

After giving up teaching university

students on his 50th birthday,

he was eternally available

for a leisurely chat or

to let me win at table tennis.

 

And then there was Mum's

brother, Uncle Desmond.

 

Always impeccably dressed. He

spent the days just, well,

being Uncle Desmond.

 

He was the most charming and least

clever man you could ever meet.

 

His mind was on other things,

though we never found out what.

(4:00)

 

Apr 12, 2023