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”

I get an e-mail from your Mam!

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.

This afternoon, I just couldn't believe it. After all the waiting and worrying, there was an e-mail from your Mam. Yes, she does have a new e-mail address, as I thought, so now I can send her e-mails. But the great thing is, the greatest thing is, the most fantastic terrific thing is, the most wonderful thing is, that she wants to see us!!! So me and Nana Ann will be able to see you for the very first time - and you're more than four years old now.

But hold on, let's not get too excited. It hasn't happened yet. And until it does, I really won't believe it. First, there's the arrangements to make. Then, we have to meet up as arranged - and things can always go wrong at the last minute. So let's be calm and try and make sure that it really does happen.

The first thing Grandad had to do is talk to Nana Ann. We do everything together. And it's so, so important that Nana Ann and your Mam and Dad get on all right. The thing is, Nana Ann is not your Mam's mother. he mother is your other Nana that Grandad used to be married to, many years ago. Nana Ann and I have been married for thirty years now, but we don't have any children, so it's all the more important to both of us that we do see you at long last.

Unfortunately (and these things always seem to happen) when I sent an e-mail to Nana Ann at work to tell her all about it, she wasn't there. She'd gone home sick. Now in 30 years I've never, ever known Nana Ann take a day of work sick, not one single day. Yet today she did. I knew she was poorly, this time with an abscess on her tooth. As usual, I told her to take a day off work, and as usual she refused and went to work despite suffering a lot of pain. But this time, by the midddle of the afternoon, just before I sent Nana Ann this very importnat e-mail to tell her about possibly seeing you, her boss insisted that she leave work and go home to bed.

So I couldn't tell Nana Ann the good news until she rang me tonight at the usual time. Of course she was very, very pleased, like me, but like me she was also very cautious. So now I have to contact your Mam and make some arrangements for us to see you. That will have to wait until tomorrow.

But tonight I can say with even more feeling than unsual

Love from

Grandad Kit and Nana Ann