Even here, in the presence of a superannuated trades unionist rather than the scion of some ancient house, Dad couldn't quite conceal the semi-comic enthusiasm with which he had bawled out "Good wood, My Lord" as His Lordship trundled up the green.
This connection between my mum and dad and ancient Rome took an unexpected twist when they retired to the house where I am making myself write this.
Pleasant smells are very pleasant; waking up to cooking bacon, clothes fresh out the washing machine, and Febreze air freshener in Dad's ancient Toyota are blind delights.
Now, ahead of launching the band's 16th album, Third World Pyramid, he talks about being a dad, the ancient Chinese military treatise The Art of War and America's culture of fear.
(Bowls still occasionally manages to impose an order that makes ancient Sparta look like a Dad's Army training camp).
(His daughter's introduction is written, one feels, affectionately, but with clenched teeth, a note of ancient exasperation with her impractical dad still hard to keep out of her sentences).
THERE is a character in "Dad's Army", an ancient but oft-repeated British television comedy, called Corporal Jones.
Ea defies her dad by sabotaging the ancient 80s-vintage computer on which he devises all his pointlessly cruel earthquakes etc and sets up on her own.
As Dad would say, it's ancient history".
The auto industry, Pratt explained, is anticipating that in the next few years Americans, like my dad, will finally ditch their ancient cars and flood dealerships.
