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”

A different kind of library

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 was back home on the train last night after staying with Nana Ann at her house. This time I made sure it stopped at my station before I got on - I didn't want to go sailing past like last time when I jumped on the train at the last minute.

Today Grandad was all day in a libarry, but not a library with thousands of books. This was a newspaper library, with thousands of newspapaers going back years and years. Old newspapers are very handy for telling you what happened when. The only thing is, you have to know where to look, otherwise you could waste a lot of time looking for something and never finding it. But if you know that soemthing happened on a particular day, then you can look at the newspaper for the next day (unless it happened in the mroning and gthere's an evening paper like you have in London) and then you can find out all the details of what you want know. Grandad doesz this a lot, for his books, but it is hard work but very interesting. The trouble is, when you are looking for one particular thing, you can see somethig else completely different but very intresting and you can get distracted and waste a lot of time with things that are interesting but that you don't need.

Today I went to see a man abour setting up another blog just like this one, but not about you I'm afraid. This blog for youy will have to come to and end in a few weeks time, but by then I really really hope I will be able to see you in the flesh and there won't be any need for me to write this blog any more. In any case, I might run out of things to tell you (or perhaps not).

I'll be in tonight, so let's hope your Mam gives me a ring.

Love from

Grandad Kit and Nana Ann