John
Dixi was very frequent customer in the Grocery shop, nearly every day. I delivered grocery's to his house, which was a whitewashed thatched cottage, many times which was on the Causeway end road, now all knocked down to make way for the houses and estates that are there now.
He was born with no arms his hands were connected to his shoulders and he held the paint brushes in his mouth, and as you know from the pictures Jean has, was a very component artist especially landscapes we also had a picture of the Mourn Mountains but I don't know where it went when my parents passed away. I believe his paintings are valuable now.

He was only one of the characters that were customers like Jimmy McCormick who called for his plug of tobacco every morning on his way to the Causeway end where he carried the drinking water from the pump to a lot of the houses there who had not got running water and he would do a little jig if asked he hated to be told he was late he nearly went mad Artie (Jean's husband) and Sidney Bryans used to keep him going.

Another was Kitty McConville who lived across the road from the shop in the old cottages, that were knocked down to build the banks etc that are there now, beside the McKees (Sparrow, Norman Etc) and Billy Lilley on one side and McMullens on the other. She worked in the mill and walked there every day in bare feet and wore an apron made from a sugar bag from the shop. There were many more too many to write about. Changed times
Will talk to you soon.