He would have been a hundred years old today.
my grandfather, the one they named me after,
the man who I played with as a child,
playing rough, the way that only grandad\'s do,
who made me the wooden cricket set,
who would fill our glasses with ice-cream and lemonade,
and white paper-bags crammed with sweets.
They say he filled a door-frame with his stature,
and that\'s where I get my height from.
I will raise a glass for him tonight.
2nd Jan 2024.