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”

Deaf old lady

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.

Today Grandad went to interview an old lady for a tv film we are making. I had to ask her questions, and she was very, very deaf - so I really had to shout! I shouldn't complain too much, because I am a little deaf myself. This old lady - a very nice old lady - has a hearing aid, but when she put it on, it made a whistling noise, so she had to take it out again.

This evening I went on a run to the new bridge they are building across a small river near us. I've told you about it before, about how they build the bridge. Anyway, now they have built up the road on either side, so I was able to run across it for the very first time. I'll be one of the very first people to go across this new bridge, apart from the work people that is.

The road has been laid in layers of stone, which have been rolled with a very heavy roller so that the surface is flat and hard. Later on they'll put a layer of tarmac down, or perhaps two layers, with big stones in it. The, finally, they'll put the topping on, a thin layer of tarmac with small stones in it. That's called the wearing surface, because it has to take the pounding of all the cars and lorries that go along it. Gradually the wearing surface will waer away, and every so many years it'll have to be replaced. But the layers undernaeth should stay there for a hundred years or more.

On top of the bridge I saw the marks that the surveyors use to tell the men exactly how high each level of the stone and tarmac there should be. These marks have to be eaxct, otherwise there would be bumps on the road! Grandad used to be a surveyor on the roads and so I know what they have to do.

Nana Ann was a lot better yesterday. She's had an extra holiday today, for the Queen's birthday. All the people who work for the government, like Nana Ann, have an extra day's holiday for theQueen's birthday.

Actually, the Queen ahs two birthdays - her own natural birthday, like everybody else, and also another day which is her "official" birthday. Wht that should be, I have no idea. And the Queen doesn't need any extra birthday presents, she's a very rich woman - one of the richest in the country.

Grandad is off on his travels again tomorrow. I'll let you know where I am.

Love from

Grandad Kit and Nana Ann