Fathers now in their fifties are aware that Roald Dahl wrote much more than Charlie and the Chocalate Factory, a newly released film. He also wrote a series called Revolting Ryhmes and when my kids were growing up we all got into Roald. The kids loved him and I enjoyed reading them his poems and stories. How I ever did it before that idiot Latham come on the scene and passed on the secret that reading to kids was a good idea I’ll never know.

If you don’t know much about his works or have forgotten his wicked sense of humour then go read his versions of Goldilocks and the Three Pigs.

If you don’t enjoy ’em you’ve had a humour bypass.

A firefighter is working on the engine outside the station when he notices a little girl riding down the sidewalk in a little red wagon with little ladders hung off the sides and a garden hose tightly coiled in the middle. The girl is wearing a firefighter’s helmet. The wagon is being pulled by her dog and her cat. The firefighter walks out to take a closer look. “That sure is a nice fire truck,” he says admiringly. “Thanks, Mister Fireman,” the girl says. The firefighter looks a little closer and notices the girl has tied the wagon to her dog’s collar and to the cat’s testicles. “Little Partner,” the firefighter says, “I don’t want to tell you how to run your rig, but if you were to tie that rope around the cat’s collar, I think you could go faster.” The little girl replies sweetly, “You’re probably right, but then I wouldn’t have a siren.â€? David Blackburn Amarillo, TX.