It’s Fathers Day in the UK, so I’ve spelled out today’s message with objects that remind me of my dad. I’ll walk you through it:

H - I never got into football as a kid. I preferred rugby. I didn’t play for long, but started following the premiership a few years when we bought Saracens season tickets.

A - When I was a teenager, we joined a Yacht club together. We weren’t very good at it, but it was fun to potter about in a lake every weekend.

P - My pop’s a talented cartoonist. I’ve inherited his interest in drawing.

P - He’s retired now, but my dad always had tie-wearing jobs. His hard work has my life easier and I’m grateful.

Y - Y chromosome. I definitely inherited that from him.

F - He’s got a good DIY mindset, my old man, and a garage full of tools.

A - We used to go camping every year when I was a kid, and my dad would always bring a ball of string with him. It often came in useful actually.

T - When I was studying graphic design at GCSE, my dad made me a t-square and drawing board, which was really nice of him. Being a teenager, I swung the t-square around like an axe more often than I drew with it.

H - Me and my older sister played with lego a lot as children. Most of the blocks in our collection were the same one my dad played with when he was young.

E - He’s a big ol’ boy scout who carries a penknife.

R S - I was struggling to think of things by this point so rolled two letters into one object. My dad used to make a lot of jewellery. Never an ‘R’ necklace specifically, but I needed the letter.

DAY - I’d given up on letter-looking objects completely by this point, so just lobbed the word ‘day’ onto the spine of a book. There was a bookcase in almost every room of the house when I was growing up. Books are important. My dad taught me that.

A daily doodle doodled by Essex based illustrator MARINE MAMMAL.