Gordon writes
When I was growing up I remember that in our living room at 22 Ormonde Gardens there hung a jack‘o’nine tails- a reminder to me that with it I could be punished by my father in the event of disobedience...I never was, although I believe it may have been on my elder brother, Cecil, who was the wild member of the family given, with his red hair, to riding off on the occasional donkey if it strayed into the Castlereagh area (unlikely even then in such an urban area).
Andrew Henry Duffield (Andy) could never have been a stern (let alone a cruel) father.
The only time I remember him losing his temper was when in a moment of tension after some kind of argument with Sarah (Sadie), when he was fixing a window in the kitchen passageway and slammed it shut in a fit of pique.
It broke into smithereens.
It was a noteworthy occasion for me – a moment when I realised that a figure of respect could also be hurt: and human.
