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”

Shopping can be fun

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 go shopping once or twice a week, and I see kids being dragged round by their parents. But we could make a game of shopping. I'm sure you already help your Mam and Dad in the supermarket when they want you to get something off a particular shelf. And of course there's always the chance for you to get the things you want - but I hope there's not too many sweets and choccies (as much as I like them myself!).

Nana Ann rang early tonight, I don't know why. Maybe she wanted to watch a particular television channel. I might have to send her railway ticket to the Isle of Wight in the post, as I may have to go on a different train instaed of the same one. We both love travelling by train. In fact, Nana Ann will not go up in an aeroplane - she always takes the train. Before the Channel Tunnel was opened, she used to cross the Channel or the North Sea by ferry rather than fly. Now you can get anywhere in Europe by train.

Travelling by train is great because you can move around and more or less do what you like, provided it doesn't annoy the other passengers. And if you sit at a table, you can play all kinds og games, read or draw. And there's toilets and the refreshement bar for long journeys.

Remember Grandad nearly went to the right town in the wrong county? Well, today I raed about a man who did just that - and put it in a book! The trouble with making a mistake in a book is that it's there for everybody to see, for ever, at least until the book is re-printed, but even then the original mistake is still there in the first edition. That's why we all try and get things right the first time, but we are only human and mistakes do creep in!

Love from

Grandad Kit and Nana Ann