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”

Big explosion near your cousin's house

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.

A terrible thing happened on Saturday. A man was going to work in his van. He stopped to get a newspaper, and when he got back into his van and drove off, the van exploded. Unfortunately, the man was killed. But because it was very early on a Saturday morning, there was no-one else in the street, and no-one else got hurt - just the man who had been driving his van.

Nana Ann, who is still feeling poorly, rang up to see if everything was all right with your cousin Elaine and your Auntie Rosie who live nearby, but they were well away from where the explosion took place.

Later in the week I'll be going back down to London to do a job and also see Nana Ann. I hope she'll be better by then. If not, I'm going to make her go to the doctor's instead of just trying to get herself better.

Love from

Grandad Kit and Nana Ann