My Dad Was a Drummer in a Jaz Band

I had a happy childhood, partly because i was successful at school. My father's side of the family were politically irish,. an imigrant, famly famine a imigrants. And my dad disappointed his parents by not going to manchester university. He played drums in a jaz band on the isle of man which was pretty far out in those days. I never really got beyond being a rather patronizing little twit with him. But he must have known how what a patronizing burke i was, being some ofther time. The most regret in my life has always been that i didn't have a better relationship. When you lost your first husband aged 22, 23