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”

Talking on the telephone

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.

You've probably talked on the telephone to your other Nanas and Grandads - how I wish I could talk on the telephone to you! - but that is just two people talking to each other, one on each end of the phone. Now imagine a whole lot of people talking together on the same telephone. What would ahppen if they all talk at once? No-one could hear anything.

This happened today. Instead of having a meeting with people having to travel from all over the country to London to meet in a room, as usually happens, this time we all stayed at home and had our "meeting" on the telephone. We all ring in to the same number, then everybody can hear everybody esle - provided only one person speaks at a time. So we had to take it in turns to say something. It worked pretty well, but I found it quite difficult deciding when to "chip in" and say something.

I'm coing donw to London again the week aftre next, and I'm thinking about asking your Mam if Nana Ann and me can come and see you all. That would be quite difficult, as the last time we saw your Mam and Dad was when they got married, and that was before you were even thought of. So we have to go carefully.

Love from

Grandad Kit and Nana Ann