A tribute: From son to father

I got the below tribute by email, for my Husband, from his son (J). I read it to Husband and it turned him to mush. He said "J has always been a good kid.", and though I did not know J when he was a kid(!), I did have the good fortune to be able to meet him a few years ago and get to know him - and though he is no longer a 'kid', he is a truly good PERSON, someone I am happy and proud to know, and I know Husband is very proud of J too, especially his never-say-die attitude. So let me reproduce this tribute here, just the way it arrived, and, in my own way, thereby pay tribute to both father and son:

A short essay about:- “MY DAD”
When I was little I used to think my Dad was Kool because he did loads of kool stuff.

1. He once made me a sandpit. (Okay the cinder blocks he built it out of, would have scratched the hide of a woolly mammoth, but it was still ace.)
2. Everybody used to say MY DAD looks like MAGNUM PI. (except when he got older, then it was Cliff Thorburn )
3. He had loads of cool cars. (a Bubble car with bucket seats, literally, A Triumph herald convertible, I still remember Blackpool lights, with the hood down, awesome. And who could forget the really cool Mini with 3 wheels)
4. He always got me the coolest birthday & xmas presents. I was the first person I know to have a digital watch. A proper bone handled sheath knife from the lake District. He also bought me a proper bow & arrow. And a really cool space pistol that fired plastic grenades (that I owned for 3 minutes on Christmas day, up until I fired a grenade at my sisters head, then he put it on top of his wardrobe where I couldn’t reach it.)
5. He never bollocked me when I sold his old jag and went on holiday to America. (It helped sort me out after my divorce)
6. He let me taste my first Harvey Wallbanger in Weymouth when I was twelve.
7. He always made the best scallops & beans.
8. He always made me eat my bread & butter with a knife & fork, off the plate.
9. He subscribed me to National Geographic, when I was young. (This was ace because Iam know so fully of useless trivia, I am ace at pub quizzes and it had lots of pictures of topless women in it.)
10. He was never too busy to take me to the X-ray department of the Royal Infirmary about twice a week between the ages of nine to thirteen.
11. He once took me to school in a Rolls Royce.

In fact my DAD is the best and Koolest Dad ever.
And I love him to bits.
J F 43+a bit.