Dear Francesca and Liam,
I’ve just got back in from a rehearsal. I know it’s Wednesday but the rehearsal was with the TSMB. Barnet Band’s on holiday for the summer. It’s quite a long trek out to Stratford where we rehearsed tonight and I’m really tired when I get home.
Just want to hope that you’re both tucked up safely and to wish you sweet dreams,
Night night,
from,
Grandma and Grandad xxxx
Hello there, Liam and Francesca,
Hope you’ve had a good start to the holidays.
Today, I actually finished my paper for Italy and walked up to Colindale to post it. I walked past the Video Shop and saw your friend’s Dad in there, Francesca. I didn’t see if Devan was in there. Do you remember him still. There’s lots of memories of you two around here.
I always remember you also, Liam when I go up there. I walked past you one day when you were getting out of your car with your Daddy and I had to walk past. All I wanted to do was to stop and say Hello. That’s what I want to do now but can’t.
Ah well, hope you keep having a great Summer, we’ll think of you all the way through it,
Bye my dears,
Grandma and Grandad xxxx
Dear Francesca and Liam,
It’s the start of your first week of holidays today, Francesca. What about you, Liam? Are you still at nursery? We’d so like to know about your lives at the moment but can only guess.
Today I’m making a real effort to finish my paper for Italy although I’ve just spent half an hour or so adding a bit to my novel. I have to write it when the ideas come, you know. What about you, what are you doing today?
Whatever you do, have a nice time, we’ll be thinking about you, as always,
Bye for now, my dears,
Love, Grandma and Grandad xxxx
Dear Liam and Francesca,
I started to write this letter at half-past eight this morning and now it’s half-past eight in the evening. I wasn’t able to get onto the internet earlier today and it’s been really annoying that I couldn’t write to you when I wanted. Anyway, here I am now.
I just remembered to do something that your Daddy told me about and, when I tried it, the internet worked. You know, when this happened in the past, we would just ring up and ask your Daddy what to do. We can’t do that anymore, can we? It’s a great shame.
Well, I hope that you’ve had a good day and you’re probably ready for bed or already in bed. Do have a good evening if you’re still up and sleep tight if you’re n bed. We’ll talk tomorrow,
Night, night,
Grandma and Grandad xxxx
Dear Francesca and Liam,
How are you today? We hope that you’ve got something exciting planned for the weekend.
We’re both really tired after all our travelling. However, it was a great visit to Germany. We wonder if we’ll ever get to take you two there. You know, everyone over there asks about you and wants to see you. You’ve got a lot of people in Germany who love you too.
I guess that we have to get on with getting everything back to normal today. Grandma’s already unpacking the big case and we need to try to get everything sorted. It’s so sad that, at the moment ‘normal’ doesn’t include you two in our lives but we can only hope.
Well, have a nice day today, whatever you’re doing. We’re wishing you every happiness, as always,
Bye for now, Lots and lots of love,
from, Grandma and Grandad xxxx
Dear Liam and Francesca,
Today, we set off for Karlsruhe but we stopped on the way to see our friends Olga and Adje. They live in Mannheim. It was really nice to see them. Adje is busy setting up a new museum in Mannheim and it’s all about musical instruments. He showed me their collection of instruments and asked me to blow quite a lot of the trumpets and horns so that he could record them.
What I really liked were the pre-Columbian trumpets. These were made of clay, like pots and were all kinds of shapes. They were made before Columbus went to America by the Aztecs and Maya and lots of other people. It was a real honour to be able to blow instruments from so long ago and to record them.
Do you know though, you have to be really careful because sometimes they put poison on the instruments when they buried them in graves to stop people stealing them. It’s a good thing that Adje knew which ones we could blow, isn’t it?
After the visit to the museum, we went down to Karlsruhe by train and got to the hotel quite late. At first, we could get into the hotel because the reception had closed and we had to phone up and they told us how to get the key from a secret box. In the end, we got in and went to bed but we were very tired.
We’ll write to you tomorrow about our next exploits,
Until then, look after yourselves and be good,
Night, night,
Grandma and Grandad xxxx
Dear Francesca and Liam,
We’re still in Frankfurt and we spent this morning looking around more. We found the shopping mall with the fantastic curvy glass roofs and had our lunch in there in a Spanish restaurant.
This afternoon, we met Tante Else who’d come up for the day and it was nice to have a chat about the wedding and other things.
We’re on the move again tomorrow, ’til then, Bye
from
Grandma and Grandad xxxx
Dear Liam and Francesca,
We’re writing this in an internet cafe in Frankfurt. We came down here today by train from Leer. It was quite a long journey and we had to change trains at Cologne.
We had a bit of a walk round Frankfurt earlier and remembered quite a bit of it from our previous visit. The hotel is quite nice and the people who run it seem to be Russian.
The weather is still nice here and so far, we’ve been really lucky to have good weather on this trip.
That’s all for now, we’ll write tomorrow.
All our love,
Grandma and Grandad xxxx