The Neighbourhood Grandpa

When we first moved to this house a year ago, we used to see this rather dapper-looking old man on our walks around the neighbourhood.

He would always stop to talk with the kids and then give them a loonie or a twonie.

He and his departed wife never had children, he explained. He was an only child and his wife was an English war bride so they don't really have any neices or nephews either.

"I have no one of my own to be grandfatherly to," he said. "So I adopt all the children I pass in my daily half-hour walk."

We don't see him around anymore.