My name is Maggie Cade.0:07
I would like to tell you about a very special man in my life.0:09
He was a fountain of knowledge and a storyteller.0:13
A family man and a true gentleman.0:16
He was not tall or even good looking.0:19
In fact he was short, not very young and quite bald.0:22
My mother called him one of nature's gentlemen, but I just called him Grandad.0:26
He was a gentle country man who had worked close to the natural world.0:32
He was always willing to share his experiences with us children and he told me many sayings and anecdotes.0:36
A simple walk with him turned into a journey of exploration and wonder.0:43
My granddad was always ready to answer lots of questions of a child thirsty for information.0:48
History came to life as he began speaking about his youth.0:54
I learnt a lot from the stories of his days on the farm where he had been sent to be a farm boy.0:58
Over the years I have found that many things in his stories are absolutely true.1:04
For instance, if the sun shines at midday on Christmas Day then we can expect a good fruit season.1:09
He was a real family man in every sense of the word.1:21
He loved his daughter and his grandchildren and tried to do everything he could for them.1:25
A lot of fruit and vegetables grew in his home garden.1:30
He admired flowers too, but never grew them himself.1:34
You can't eat flowers, he said to me.1:37
He had a cart to carry his things to and from the field.1:40
It was really just an orange box on four wheels.1:45
But he was proud of it.1:48
He was not a church goer, this man I loved so much.1:50
But he loved his God in the natural way of his daily life.1:53
I feel that of all the people I have ever known, he had the greatest influence on me both as a child and as a grown up.1:57
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