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”

Tough test for Grandad

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.

I was so busy yestreday telling you about Saltburn pier and its marvellous funicular railway, that I forgot to tell you about the very tough test I had in the hospital. Two nurses put me on a treadmill with all sorts of wires attcahed to me, to test my heart and see if there is anything wrong with it.

Now Grandad has been a runner most of his life. I have run marathons and hundreds of other races, so I though a test on a treadmill would be easy peasy. No, it wasn't. It was all right at first, as the treadmill started slowly. Gradulaly the speed increased, but I still wasn't worried because it wasn't going too fast for me. Then they started to ake it steeper.

So as well as going faster and faster, the traedmill was going steeper and steeper, something I never do when I'm in the gym. So eventually I had to give in and ask them to stop, which of course they did. We'll have to see what comes out of these tests, but there didn't seem to be anything untoward.

Yesterday I went to see a lady. She is the mother of twins, a boy and a girl. The funny thing is, she is a twin herself - she has a twin brother. This is what they mean when they say twins run in the family. Imagine having a brother or a sister just like you and exactly the same age. In many ways that woulkd be great.

Soemtimes twins are identical - looking exactly alike. That can be scary, especially if each twin know what the other is thinking all the time, even without speaking to each other. This does happen, I can assure you!

Love from

Grandad Kit and Nana Ann