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21st Jun 2015

Dear Dad: Kids confess all on anonymous postcards

Katie Mythen-Lynch

A collection of anonymous postcards written by strangers to their fathers reveals the hilarious and heartbreaking secrets sons and daughters could never tell their Dads.

Jonny Biggins, Jason Bramley and Steve Hanson from personalised gift company The Book of Dad handed out 3,000 blank ‘What I never told my dad’ postcards. The completed cards reveal the sometimes painful, often difficult and frequently funny relationships people have with their fathers.

Posting on the company’s Facebook page, Biggins said: “Each new card, just with a few simple sentences, contain a multitude of emotions. I’ve personally shed a few tears reading them, both of joy and sadness.

Here are 12 of the most poignant and funny replies:

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