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”

Eye getting better

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.

For once I didn't sleep to well last night, but today my eye has felt a lot better. I hope it's fully recovered for tomorrow, which is a big day for me (that's the main reason why Nana Ann has come up this weekend - I wasn't expecting her till Monday). What she has done is to have a real go at the garden. All the stuff she's hacked off she loaded into plastic bags which we then had to transport to the tip, or rather, to give it its proper name, community recycling centre.

This is an excellent place where there are blokes who are always on the lookout to see what they can salvage and sell. I think that's a jolly good thing. If they can sell things that the rest of us throw away, well, good luck to them. You could have leant us a nad, tiping the bags into the skip. As well as the bracnhes etc, we had cardboard and wood and an old computer.

When she was on the phone the other day, I told your Mam about the present Nana Ann and I have got you for your fourth birthday which is coming up soon. I had to make sure you are stil living at the same address - I didn't want to send it to an old address if you had moved, but she told me you are in the same house as before. Now it's going to take some time before we get round to talking about coming to see you, and after all this time I dn't want to "rush my fences" and try to go too quickly. So for the moment me and your Mam are just going to talk on the phone, but that's a huge improvement on not talking atall! And it means I can send you postcards from all the places that I go to, just as I do for other memebers of the family. I'll try and choose pictures that you will like.

Grandad was a bit tired today, with everything that has happened in the past week - including travelling half way across the country - but I'm sure I'll be up bright and breezy first thing tomorrow morning for my "big day." I'll tell you about it tomorrow.

Love from

Grandad Kit and Nana Ann