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GRANDPA IS ILL

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Grandpa is ill.

He is looking quite poorly, moves slowly and is a bit sad.

Usually, when Grandma brings me back from school, he will hide and jump out on me if at home. Sometimes he might be in the garden and I always offer to help sweep up leaves in the autumn or cut the grass in spring and summer. He will hold unto the lawnmower to make it safe.

We normally play all sorts of games; board games such as Monopoly or Sorry, which he taught me a few years ago, or tennis in the garden. Grandma bought him a table tennis kit and we play that, too. However, it means setting it up on the dining room table, but the hassle is worth it. I am quite a sporty lad.

I love my polystyrene planes. They are amazing to fly and often get stuck on the kitchen or conservatory roofs, though dislodging them from the trees can be a difficult task. We have a very long bamboo stick which helps knock balls and planes out of the trees or off the roof. Last June Grandpa bought me a foam javelin to practise improving my throw ready for Sports Day. I didn’t win, though I’ll try again this year.

Grandpa rigged up an assault course on one of the old green weeping beech trees – I love it, but found it a bit scary the first few times I used it. Now I am like Spiderman swinging through the ropes or ascending the ladders. Sometimes he changes the layout to make it more of a challenge.

I love Grandpa very much and I hate to see him ill.  He looks unhappy even when he smiles at me. His eyes are no longer bright and full of life. Grandma and I both noticed that his ‘crow’s feet’ – funny wrinkles around his eyes – don’t squish up as much as they used to. I think he finds it hard to smile when worried and upset, but he pretends for me that all is OK.

Sadly, Grandpa has cancer, but the clever consultants will do their best to make him better.

The above extract is from Grandpa is ill.

Grandpa is ill. (Continued)

Coming soon, a book to be read to children about cancer or read by 8 year olds and upwards themselves. Delicately and sensitively written to explain about the bad cells and the good cells and what happens to Grandpa on his journey over a year. (He does survive!)

GRANDMA’S DNA & OTHER STUFF!

Jessica and Grandma have set out to discover more about their family history.

In doing so, they investigate Grandma’s DNA and gain quite a bit of knowledge about it, too.

Can you even say deoxyribonucleic acid?

DNA is easier!

Was Grandma related to a Viking warrior who set sail for Scotland in a longboat or was she a distant relative of Boudicca and the Iceni tribe?

Is there a clue hiding in her brother’s ‘Viking finger’ which urgently requires amputation or is that a red herring?

What has Africa got to do with any of it? She is Irish!

Grandma is certainly of Celtic origins, but there is more to her than her long, curly red hair and determined feminist nature which ensures equality for all that follow in her wake.

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