 The Stanley sisters called him "Spiv", because of his pencil-thin moustache, margarine-coated hair, and pork-pie hat, and the young Lennon called him "Twitchy" because of a physical tic/nervous cough.Julia's family and friends remembered that he also had a fiery temperament, which could result in his being violent when drunk.Lennon remembered seeing his mother during a visit to Mimi's, when her face was bleeding after being hit by Dykins.