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”

Hurry up, baby snails!

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.

Grandad went for a run this evening. It'd just been raining, the air was wet and clean, and it was lovely. I was running along this path when I saw a whole load of snails, little baby snails, going across the path. Obviously snails can't run atall and can only crawl along very slowly, but I told them to hurry up or else the birds would come and get them. I guess the snails wanted to get at the grass on the other side of the path.

When I cam back along the same path, most of the baby snails had got over the path, but now there were a few bigger snails. I guess these bigger, older snails had been waiting a little while to see if any birds would come and eat up the littel snails. When the birds didn't come, the older snails wouyld reckon it was all right to cross the path. I di see snails my front path in front of our hose from time to time, but I also see a lot of empty snail shells. The birds do get them sometimes!

Nana Ann doesn't like snails and she absolutely hates slugs - the slimy balck things like snails but with no shells. But Nana Ann will not kill any living thing, not even a fly. So she gathers up all these snails and slugs in a pail and takes them a long way away, too far for them to come back into her garden! I wonder what they thing when she lets them out? Where are we?

Love from

Grandad Kit and Nana Ann