grandad kit

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Dear “Tom”

Chelsea Flower Show, Wally Ball

I am you 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.

I know just where Nana Ann is today. She'll be spending all day at the Chelsea Flower Show. You're very lucky living in London, because there are so many things going on there all the time. But Grandad was born in the North of England and he likes living her. You were born in London, so naturally London will always be special to you.

The Chelsea Flower Show has been on all week, and Nana Ann has been there at least three days, but only for a short while after work. She likes going there on a saturday, because she can spend all day there. And Saturday is the day when they sell off all the flowers. You can be sure Nana Ann will buy some, even though her garden is quite small and she's already got lots and lots of flowers growing there.

I don't know what your garden is like, but I will take a guess that it's quite small too. If you have a big garden, you have to spend a lot of time looking after it. Soem people like doing that, but I don't and Nana Ann is too busy - so that's why our gardens are quite small. But I can tell you that the rose bush which kept on flowering all through the winter has started again with some beautiful buds that have just come through to open up into two lovely blooms - just today. So I've had roses growing almost ll the year!

I bet your Dad was watching the rugby sevens on the telly. Rugby sevens is the same as the usual game of rugby, but there are only seven players in each side instead of the usual fiftenn. That means there's a lot more space to run around and it's almost always very exciting to watch.

It won't be long before you'll be able to play rugby. I've seen plenty of young boys and girls not much older than you playing rugby. Instead of tackling, which can be dangerous, the boys and girls each have a tage or a ribbon on their belts. When the ribbon is pulled of by a player from the other side, they have to drop the ball. It's a good game and you run about a tremendous lot.

When your cousin Elaine was your age, I used to play a game of football with her called "wally ball." This is where you kick the ball against the wall and the other player has to kick it back. The first one to miss the wall loses a point. It sounds easy, but it's not. What you try and do is to kick the ball against the wall very hard, so your oponents can't get to it, or kick it at an angle so they have to run off to the side to try and get it back. It's great fun.

Love from

Grandad Kit and Nana Ann