Great Uncle Johnny

Thought I would share a wee foto that was left by my brother beside the clock I picked up yesterday (he also left my mum's cloth she uses for making her Christmas pud. That made me cry too!).

This is our Great Uncle Johnny. An electrician - turned baker. He would visit our house for the weekend and smoke a smelly pipe ! He loved to use our plasticine to show us how he made marzipan fruit and flowers.

He once made a cake of this building for an exhibition.

We would visit his house on a Sunday and make little men out of his pipe cleaners (and we cleaned his smelly pipes too!). He always had demi-johns of homemade wine bubbling in his bedroom - and his favourite book ever (and mine!) was Irving Stones "The Agony and the Ecstacy".

This picture was my middle sister's First Communion. I'm in the shot, my mum is standing - but my eldest sister was probably in the other room sneaking the vino!