Fathers

Steve once sent me one of those little cushions on which was written "Any man can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a Dad". I treasure that . Perhaps we ought to have a "Dad's Day". The COS were once invited to Vilem Tausky's house in Towersey for a cup of tea and someone said to him "Who is your favourite composer"? He said "they are all my favourites but I always like best the one whose work I am conducting at the moment". Very tactful - you can imagine the headlines in the music papers "Tausky loves Beethoven (or whoever) the best." You are all my (our) favourites. What would Solomon have said? I agree with Pete that it can sometimes rankle (is that a word) when we go on about the children of siblings, but that is our prerogative. The same used to be the case when Nana used to go on about Robert or Rebecca, or Jane and Rachel, or Linda and Susan. I used to think "What about our lovely children? until I learned that she used to sing your praises when she visited my sisters or brother. I'm filling up so I will sign off. What we try to do is to show you all that you are special to us and we love you all. tara