'Aw Ra Best'

<p><b><i>*All proceeds from sales of this book will be donated to the charity TreeAid - www.treeaid.org.uk.</i></b><p>School motto Ex parvo magnus (out of the little come the great )<br>Everything which is written is meant to please or to instruct the second object is difficult to effect without attending to the first<p>Aw Ra Best ( All the best) Commonly used greeting to wish you well<p>In the beginning was the word and the word was with Dad and the word was Dad.<p>The foundations of my dad's family life were based on a strong Catholic Victorian-influenced background where children should be seen and not heard and he adhered to a rigid belief in everything the church dictated-including the law on contraception thus allowing nature to take its course to the tune of thirteen children at the final count including two sets of twins.<p>Lucky for some you might say but a real pain in the ass for my mother. I'm female and the eldest and I used to think my siblings were attempts to improve on nature. Perhaps the first production was a disappointment?</p>