#family-memories

#family-memories

It was jolly and innocent in the way of a deckchair, and I appear to have worn it a lot in 1986 and 1987, with mustard dungarees, or shorts and T-shirts in clashing prints. On my feet, I am often pictured wearing scuffed white trainers or a pair of T-bar shoes that are still stashed away in an attic in Sheffield. They were my first proper pair of shoes and, as I would tell anyone who would listen, they were burgundy, not red.

So, when I happened upon a very similar mac and cheese recipe from Ree Drummond, also known as the Pioneer Woman, I knew I had to give it a shot. In the recipe post, the celebrity chef describes it as the "best mac and cheese in all eternity." My expectations were high, but to make it taste a bit more like home, I included one additional ingredient that my dad loves. In my humble opinion, I think it made Drummond's recipe even more delicious.

Randi Mahomes, Patrick's mother, described selling the family home as 'bittersweet', reflecting on the memories made there while eager for a new start.

My father opened up the book, found his Kipling, and read aloud, the way he would when he wanted to share something he considered amusing from that day's Wall Street Journal.

Every year, the third Sunday of June, International Father's Day, strikes a different chord for me. I was 7 when my father died of heart failure.

"When Michelle Lynch's son Matthew was a little boy, she used to tell him stories about pirates. This was partly because of her job, and partly because the house in which they lived in Belturbet, Co Cavan, overlooked a lake known locally as Smugglers Lake."