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Quoting that ‘font of knowledge’ Wikipedia

‘Father’s Day is a day honoring fathers, celebrated on the third Sunday of June in 52 of the world’s countries and on other days elsewhere. It complements Mother’s Day, the celebration honoring mothers … Father’s Day typically involves gift-giving, special dinners to fathers, and family-oriented activities.

The first observance of Father’s Day is believed to have been held on July 5, 1908 in a church located in Fairmont, West Virginia, by Dr. Robert Webb of West Virginia at the Williams Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church South of Fairmont …’

As a family, we are a little bit skeptical of ‘Hallmark days’. Today we are not doing any of those ’special dinners to fathers’, nor ‘family-oriented activities’, nor did he get a present! We love him lots all the same, everyday!

I don’t think Denis would have any complaints as to how he is celebrating father’s day – with a golf ‘marathon’, 18 holes in the morning and another 18 in the afternoon!

In a letter in yesterday’s Irish Times ‘Madam, – With all the advertising to persuade us to buy presents for Father’s Day, tomorrow, I could not but notice that it is three months after Mother’s Day, March 22nd. Or is it perhaps more significant that it is nine months before Mother’s Day next year? – Yours, etc,’

I never noticed the relationship of the dates before!

And while I’m at it, today, 21st June is Mid-summers day, happy that too!