Would have been hard not to laugh at your poor Dad's misfortune, Alan - The day would have been indelibly marked in his memory.

I missed out on the mug given out by the schools, I never started school until the September of that year. I can clearly remember the kids in the street coming home with their mugs, especially my mate Robbie who lived opposite who came to show it to me. My 2 brothers and sister came home with the mugs. My dad used one as a shaving mug, and I bet many ended up for that purpose