grandad kit

Thank you for reading my blog. If you have difficulty seeing your grandchildren, or have any views about my situation, I would welcome your messages by e-mail through this blog site. If you wish, just use a first name or a nickname and your identity will be protected, like mine – “Grandad Kit.”

Dear “Tom”

Guernica

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. I am writing this daily "blog" to you to make up for the fact that I can't speak to you right now. I hope that one day you will be able to read this and then you will know that Grandad Kit and Nana Ann always did care for you, right from the day you were born.

Today we went to Guernica, this special town I was telling you about. Now you're really too young to understand, but seventy years ago there was a terrible civil war in spain. A civil war is, instead of people from different countries fighting each other, people from the same country fight each other. And during this fighting, the town of Guernica was heavily bombed. Lots of buildings were destroyed in the bombing, and hundreds of people were killed. Although it was seventy years ago, everybody remembers it because it was such a terrible thing at the time.

Fortunately, the civil war came to an end and now the Spanish people are at peace with each other. But they never forget the terrible things that happened all those years ago.

After visiting the town and seeing lots of things in the meseum in Guernica, including some of the bombs and shells that fell on the town but didn't explode, we went up into the mountains to have lunch in an old farmhouse that has been turned into a restaurant. I say lunch, but in fact it was a huge feats with six different courses. I ate so much, I didn't go to the dinner this evening, because I couldn't possible eat another thing (and I'm trying to keep my weight down).

Love from

Grandad Kit and Nana Ann