victoria rd, cleveleys c1958 - photo credit
i’m up in cleveleys ‘gran-sitting’ this week whilst my grandad visits his sister and her family in canada (gran won’t go as she hates flying). grandad didnt want to leave gran on her own so my cousin adam and i volunteered to split the fortnight between us – he covered last week, im in charge this week.
adam & kerry, aged 4 yrs
i only arrived yesterday but can already feel myself beginning to relax – allowed the tensions of city life to blow away in the (really quite ferocious at times) sea breeze, breathing FRESH air as opposed to the polluted shite that passes for oxygen in london and just generally chilling the frock OUT.
i’m working tho – sat at the table where i used to refuse point blank to eat tinned tomatoes, the table that used to serve as a really rather excellent ‘den’ when draped with enough sheets. i have been trying – and failing – to explain to gran exactly what it is that i ‘do’ today. she’s popped over a few times to have a nosy over my shoulder (grandad would accuse her of having ‘trunk trouble’) and asked what it was but to be honest explaining social media strategies to a 79 year old is a lesson in futility. it also doesnt help that half the time *I* dont really know what it is i’m doing…
anyway
i get to spend a whole week back on home turf – i’m going to spend loads of time with my ‘blackpool girls’, will be going out for my nothern hen do which i am reliably informed is going to take place at blackpools premiere transvestite venue ‘funny girls‘, meet my best friends brand new baby boy, go running along the prom as often as i can, buy ALL the potato cakes i can get my hands on and generally immerse myself for what will probably be the longest time i ever do so again…
but – best of all – i get to spend a whole week with jean power. best gran in the whole wide world =)
kjp xx
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