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So - What do you have with your father on his 70th birthday?

What can I give my father for his 70th birthday? It's a question I've been thinking for a while, but without much success.

After all, 70 is a bit of a milestone and means that has been around for long. That as far as I am concerned, it is a lot of years of being my father, and doing very well.

Socks, belts or ties is clearly not enough. I suspect that, in recent years, probably get enough of these to stretch all the way to somewhere very far away. Or maybe not so far, but I want to say something special is needed.

What I remember a time when my sister and I were still very small.

His entire working life of my father was a journalist - good - and used to have to go abroad quite often as kids. At least that's how we felt then.

After a trip to the Far East returned laden with exotic gifts I had ever seen.

I clearly remember the tantalizing aroma of spices that adhered to the tables he dug in his bag. Jade jewelry and endless Chinese food service for my mother, a beautiful porcelain doll sports small, hand-sewn clothing and hair exquisite twisted my sister and me, my first ever fountain pen, an adult, the beauty of blood red with a gold nib is devastatingly real. Needless to say that, for some time I had a little afraid to use it.

Did I mention that my father was - is - a man unselfishly generous? Finished with a 7-inch single called "Chairman Mao is with us", which proves my point of view completely.

Perhaps from that moment my sister and I always thought she'd come home with something, because I remember that as children, we refuse to fall asleep until he returned home from work. We were probably Included in bed at 6 pm more or less in those days, and I doubt that he showed up at least half an hour later.

But given the open door, my sister and I kept shouting to climb painfully up to kiss us goodnight. I do not think that even given the opportunity to remove his jacket.

All these returns late afternoon and outgoings of the morning. An endless ritual that always seemed one of those things that just do their parents. Very occasionally took us to his office and surrounded by the fresh smell of newsprint, were allowed to play with typewriters, rummage through drawers and perhaps conclude that the working life must be really quite good fun.

It is only much later, of course, you can appreciate the reality of endless work weeks, the pressures and anxieties and sacrifices involved. I never heard her complain.

Knowing this now, it's not surprising that other memory I have of my father is how he liked sleeping on the sun on a warm weekend.

The weather rarely have to do this - there are shelves to (try to) build and dig gardens and shopping trips to make and vagaries of time to deal with English - but homework more, if the sun shone, had to lie on a bed of sun with a radio jingle with him and finally falling asleep. A small pleasure, of course, who had won many times.

All the little things that go into making parents, parents. The moments recalled that, watching the back of chips books, shoes, bottles of port - in short, all the things that just will not do - I pluck the memories of years the trend of father approaches his 70th birthday. And I have yet to find him the right gift, a thank you and a celebration in one.

If I had the ability to make life wonderful things, I would evoke the venerable leather-bound chair in the place right next to a fire break. It would cover two cubs snorting through his feet and a blue and green parrot riding on his shoulder, chewing his beard.

Billy Bunter, I invite William and Ginger round for tea, and later that night Frank, Dean and Sammy would fall to hum a happy birthday, graciously accepting a glass of whiskey or three, then warmly shook hands before returning to Las Vegas.

He left me all their favorite stories read as if he had never read before.

But life is not made of this Thus, in the absence of things I'd like to, I can only hope that this might do instead.

Words that are written just for him. Words who want to be many different things, but end up saying, "Thanks, Dad", and "how time flies! And here's hoping that lots and lots love your big birthday, 70 years. "

About the Author

With a background in advertising, copywriting, illustration and web design, Mike currently works freelance as an SEO consultant and web content writer.

His most recent project, clickspiration.com, is aimed at the online advertising and affiliate scheme publishing sector.

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