Dad’s total recall

One of Terry’s roles as a husband and father, he believed, was to add colourful commentary to his family’s evening viewing.

This included demonstrating his skill at recalling exactly what shows that vaguely familiar bloke in the tan jacket, or that woman with the hair, had been in before.

“Dad, shut up, we don’t care,” the kids would say after he then held aloft his phone on which he’d found confirmation that his guesses were correct.

“Terry, love, we’re not impressed,” was the regular refrain of his wife, Christina.

But Terry knew she was impressed. They all were. How could they not be?

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