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”

Lots more rain

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.

Nana Ann finally got to Wales about lunchtime today. I had to go and pick her up at the station. Then we went to a little place way out on the coast of Wales. We've been there before, but many years ago. One of the things I looked at was a railway, not the usual sort of railway that goes along the ground, but a railway that goes up and down a very steep slope. It's quite exciting going on it. I could take you to a few of these - they're all different and have different ways of working. On this one, the guard has to blow his whistle every time the car (as the train carriage is called) goes up an down. there are wto cars, side by side. As one goes down, the other come up. People use them to get up and down the cliff, and some go on them just for fun.

It's been raining a lot again today. As the car goes along, it makes waves going through puddles at the side of the road, the water swishing high inot the air. Nana Ann doesn't like me doing it, but you've got to have a bit of fun, don't you? Near where I live there's a ford across a river. A ford is a shallow part of the river where you can get across because the water isn't too deep. But sometimes people ttry to drive across this ford when the water in the river is too high. The water gets in the engine, the car stops, and the people are stuck in their car in the middle of a fast-flowing river and have to be rescued. This has happened so many times that they're talkign about clsing the ford, that is, not letting people drive across it. But guess who got stuck in this ford years ago - Grandad of course! I had to go to a nearby farm and get the farmer to bring his tractor and pull out the car and the people in it. Guess who was in the car(and she was a young girl hen) it was your Mam!

Love from

Grandad Kit and Nana Ann