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”

Sunshine and rainbows

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 don't normally talk about the weather, but these last few days it's been bright sunshine one minute and a haevy rain shower the next. The good thing is, this is exactly when you'll see rainbows. When I was coming home from the track meet the other night, there was a huge rainbow right across the sky. You don't always see a full rainbow with both ends on the ground. And also, this time - very rare - you could see a "shadow rainbow" all around, following the main rainbow but on the outside. This shadow rainbow is always very faint, and has the colours in reverse.

So, the next time you can see sunshine just after a shower of rain, go outside and the chances are you'll see a rainbow in the sky. Beautiful aren't they?

I was putting leaflets out this morning (This by-election to elect an MP is on tomorrow!) and it's amazing how many people don't put their house numbers on their front doors. How do they expect people to find them or to deliver things to the right houseif they don't have the number of the house on the door? I suppose they think that everybody else has numbvers on their houses, so it's posssible for people like me to work out what their number is. I can't believe they don't want to get any letters>

Love from

Grandad Kit and Nana Ann