I wonder if that brush with death made him more aware of his pending mortality. A few years ago, he sent me a framed photo of all six surviving members of his family: five brothers and a sister, everyone but their parents. You’ve probably seen it if you’ve watched any of my recen...
“We had done a bit of fencing on the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and when I said to him that I’d see him in the morning, he told me to take the day off. 'Dad was always out on the farm; he loved it, that was his place'. “I had been promising a friend of mine that ...