Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
In my defence, she was several weeks early, the impatient little brat. Also, I'd left R with my mother in case it all went off and had gone to the game with the old man.
My word, I bet he was quite the ray of sunshine during and after

I went to my parents' house after the game to see my pa, who'd be sent home to die, and he spoke his last cogent words to me. "Could you fetch me my cigarettes please?" which was funny, given that it was some months since he'd been in a condition where he was capable of smoking, and then, "Lost? To Wimbledon?"

Next day, deaded.

Good timez.