Thank you, dad

Dad worked in Personnel. He was fluent in English, Maltese, and Italian, enabling him to translate for the Lebanese and Italian factory workers

Dad served as a Justice of the Peace for three decades. He was devoted to the community he lived in and helped uneducated people by writing letters for them and advocating on their behalf. I believe I got my sense of justice, fairness and community spirit from my father.

Something else I got from my dad was a thirst for knowledge. Dad encouraged learning and education. He brought me home maths puzzle books, and when we were still in primary school he purchased an encyclopedia on "the never-never-plan", as my mother said. He was paying it off for years.

An excerpt from Child Magical