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Hey, Mum, are you still there?
I'm still here.
OK, cool. This should be recording now, on SoundCloud. So, so the thing was, I was actually, when I met with Paul and Laura we talked about them, you know, being teachers. I realized that there is, like, there's a lot of teachers in our family. And, it kind of goes back to Granddad, right? So.
That's right, that's right I think he was the first, the first one that, that went in that direction.
Yeah, tell me about him. Your grandad, what a man, a man who was the full of direct, full of direction. I think from the stories I've heard when he was younger he knew exactly where he wanted to go and what he wanted to do. Left Cormel, which was a very, rural background for him and moved out into the world.
Full of ideas, full of confidence in his own ideas, but all the time based in--I think the fantastic thing about your grandad was that it was always based in reality. You know, he always kinda went back to, if he wasn't sure about something, he'd go out into garden and dig for a while. Yeah, one of his favorite, my favorite comments from him is, "You know, you've got to just go out to the garden and listen to everything grow."
And that will help you to, that will help you to put things into perspective.
Yeah.
So that was the kind of calm, down-to-earth side of him. But then there was, and then there was a side that who really believed in what he did as a teacher. He believed in, that he was helping, helping people forward. Yeah.
He was giving people opportunities and resources, and I think that was something he always did for us too.
Yeah.
And yeah, then another side was his fantastic level of the arts, of poetry and music and..
Right.
Smuggling me into a jazz concert at a very early age and--
Oh, really?
I didn't know that. You haven't told me that. I remember something like he used to play--he had like records of folk and the things that he used to play, right?
That's right. I've still got them. One day we should sit down if and we can find a record player we should-- He also used to play, I don't know if you've heard of "Under Milk Wood," a piece by Dylan Thomas, see, and I have that, I still have that record of his, too. We should sit down and listen to--And he played a them very loud late at night when we were supposed to be asleep.
Well The other thing that didn't really fit in with the picture of him was that he used to love football and he used to watch football matches on the television late at night as well and he'd always shout when they scored goals.
Oh, really? That doesn't seem like it fits him, like, I mean, like with how I remember him. So...What about the jazz club? What happened there?
Well that was just...I can't remember how old I was. But he was keen on jazz and decided to to take me to a...I think it was Aka Bilk, who was playing in Bristol if I remember...I mean long, long, long ago, and I was really a bit too young to get in but I got in anyway. And then we used to go to listen to modern poetry readings and poetry sessions as well.
We're talking back in the 60's now.
Yeah.
So that was...and I think...No, I don't know whether the dance came from him. I think the dance came for us came bit later on. A wonderful, wonderful man. Yeah, he led us all in some way to where we are.
Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I have ton of great memories from him as well. Cool.
Okay.
Thank you.
You're welcome. Alright, well, yeah. This is been a long recording.
Turn the recorder off now. Go back to normal.
Alright, hang on. I'm... okay. Let me try and shut it off. Hang on.
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