Just to add a little balance
Dad's also: funny; charming; well read and clever. He's even still good looking for a man approaching his 70th birthday.
When I was a kid, he used to take me for midnight walks through the park to look for hedgehogs,bats and owls. He knows the latin names for practiacally every plant you can think of....and he's an amazing cook.
Most of the time we laugh about the inability to throw anything away. He gets a twinkl in his eye when I try to tell him that the pot noodle tub he's washing out really isn't ever going to be useful, and starts listing the ways it might come in handy. He can laugh at himself.