This week, we have been chatting about our Dads, here’s some Laundry Ladies Dad facts. Please tell us about your Dads.
Helen’s dad is a banjo playing university professor, whose dream in life is to busk on the streets and shock his students. Until he plucks up the courage to realise this ambition, he fills his time by writing a banjo magazine, hosting an International banjo festival and even recording banjo radio programmes for the BBC (out in January, we’ll tell you when so you can listen and learn all about banjos). Helen isn’t very fond of banjos, but is secretly very proud of her dad as he’s actually pretty good at playing the banjo. Just to add to world noise pollution, he also plays the bagpipes.
Harriet also has a folky dad. Although his beard and barnet aren’t as wild and bushy as they used to be he still tinkles out the odd jig on his penny whistle and plays in a barn dance band called Pickled Tink. Now he’s kind of corporate by day and herbal by weekend, not so much ale-fuelled festival going as mini-discs at the dinner table. He’s also a bit of a clever clogs like Helen’s papa, and Harriet was never quite able to proffer the enthusiasm for ‘My First Chemistry Set‘ that he would quite have hoped for. But, he did manage to teach her the first 2 lines of the periodic table, by heart!
Rachel’s Dad wouldn’t be seen dead at a folk concert. He is into Northern Soul his passion started when it first became cool and is still a fan now, because as you know it is still cool. He is an excellent dancer, a skill only displayed at weddings and work dos. He likes to day How do? instead of how do you do? when he meets people. He went to university in Liverpool and once him and his friend Eric who had a prosthetic leg stole a double decker bus and drover round the city centre picking up people for free. His is an engineer and the worse thing he ever made Rachel do was (when Rachel wanted to be an Architect) take her on site on Christmas day to watch a preformed concrete railway bridge be wheeled into place, it took 3 hours.
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