FAMILY LIFE

This is my dad. He’s known me all my life haha. He loves football (Hull city and Manchester united, to the extent that I was named after a man united player Ryan Giggs and Alex was named after probably the best manager of the generation Sir Alex Ferguson who was at Man United from 86-13. Mitchell was named after a stripper from the Full Monty movie, so God knows what happened there haha), he also loves music and comedy. Growing up he was like an encyclopaedia for music trivia and would teach me the odd fun fact. I was an expert at Beatles trivia at a very young age which really helped when I moved schools and found we was studying them in history. He’s a really good artist and taken it back up recently making various large boards and face cut out things for kid’s parties. He would often do wall murals for our bedrooms and schools and would also paint on the windows on the paediatric ward.
Now my dad does have his demons that seem to have been getting worse as we got older. Growing up he was a night owl, but he was social and always quick with a joke. Now he isn’t social at all and often doesn’t talk with his old friends. Whist he has tried to keep it from me he is suffering bad from depression or something along them lines. He hasn’t looked for help. I don’t know if any of my family will read this but if he does, I want him to know he is loved and while he was monstrous sometimes growing up, I still have so many happy memories and I’m glad I have him in my life.