grandad kit

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Dear “Tom”

Building a garage

I am your other grandfather, the one you have never met. You are three years old, and although I have never met you, I love you dearly and always will. You are my flesh and blood, and always will be. We will meet one day, I am sure.

The men are getting on with building the two houses behind us. They have started on the walls of one house, building them up to about four or five feet high so far. I notice that, inbetween the two courses of bricks (you should know that a brick wall for a house is usually actually two walls, each one brick wide, with a gap inbetween) they are putting very thick insulation material. That will keep the heat in and will mean that the heating bills are less, when the house is finished and people are living in in.

I went to see a friend of mine who wants to buold a gar4age at the bottom of his garden. The reason he wants this is that he lives ina v ery narrow street and had nowhere to park his car - he has to park it soem distance away. That is very inconvenient. It means he has to carry things a long way from the car to the house, and he can't keep an eye on his car at night when it might be stolen or broken into.

But before he can build a garage at trhe bottom of his garden, he nees to have a raod in. At the moment, there is only a footpath and it is not possible to bring a car in. So we have to try and arrange for a road to be built. It's not just for him, it's alos for all his neighbours who also have the same problem with nowhere to park their cars nearby. They want to build garages too. So if all the people club together, they could afford to build a little road to get theur cars into their new garages.

But if one person refuses to pay, what then? The road can't be built. The otger people are not preapred to pay for the one peson who won't pay, as well as for their own share, so nothing gets done. Sad, isn't it? But we are trying to find a solution.

Love from

Grandad Kit and Nana Ann