{"id":219,"date":"2019-12-03T13:34:35","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T13:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swanseawriterscircle.co.uk\/blog\/?p=219"},"modified":"2019-12-03T13:35:30","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T13:35:30","slug":"grandpas-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swanseawriterscircle.co.uk\/blog\/grandpas-visit\/219\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandpa\u2019s Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\n Mum<\/strong>\n <\/td>\u201cRobin, please spend some time with Grandpa this Christmas.\u201d <\/td><\/tr>
\n Robin<\/strong>\n <\/td>\u201cYes mum, but he\u2018s so boring, everything was always better in his days, the snow was colder, the sun shone more and blah de blah de blah.\u201d <\/td><\/tr>
\n Mum<\/strong>\n <\/td>\u201cI know, but just be nice will you, he\u2019s quite lonely now since Grandma died.\u00a0 He\u2019s only staying for two days, so let\u2019s just try and make this a nice Christmas for him.\u201d <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n \n \n Christmas Day<\/strong>\n \n <\/td><\/tr>
\n Robin<\/strong>\n <\/td>\u201cHi Grandpa.\u201d <\/td><\/tr>
\n Grandpa<\/strong>\n <\/td>\u201cHi Robin bach, gosh haven\u2019t you grown, you were named after me you know.\u201d <\/td><\/tr>
\n Robin<\/strong>\n <\/td>\u201cYes Grandpa, you have told me before.\u201d <\/td><\/tr>
\n Grandpa<\/strong>\n <\/td>\u201cLet\u2019s have a look at this fancy new computer you\u2019ve had, I hear it is a good one.\u201d <\/td><\/tr>
\n Robin<\/strong>\n <\/td>\u201cYeah, it’s mega fast and mum bought me loads of games as well.\u00a0 It\u2019s upstairs in my bedroom, do you want to come up?\u201d\u2026\u2026. <\/td><\/tr>
\n \n Later on<\/strong>\n \n \n <\/td><\/tr>
\n Mum<\/strong>\n <\/td>\u201cRobin, Dad, your Christmas Dinner is on the table.\u201d <\/td><\/tr>
\n Grandpa<\/strong>\n <\/td>\u201cOh, I do like bit of Welsh Lamb, it was your Grandma\u2019s favourite, she always use to say \u201cStuff the turkey, let\u2019s have lamb!\u201d\u201d <\/td><\/tr>
\n Mum<\/strong>\n <\/td>Dad! \u00a0 <\/td><\/tr>
\n Robin<\/strong>\n <\/td>\u201cMum, you never guess, Grandpa beat me at Battleships, he was awesome.\u00a0 Can we go back up after dinner?\u00a0 Grandpa\u2019s promised to teach me how to play chess on the computer.\u201d <\/td><\/tr>
\n Mum<\/strong>\n <\/td>\u201cOf course you can, I didn\u2019t know you could play chess dad?\u201d <\/td><\/tr>
\n Grandpa<\/strong>\n <\/td>\u201cIt\u2019s these IT lessons I\u2018ve been going to, they teach you loads of things, they are certainly not boring.\u00a0 Say Robin, would it be alright if I borrowed your old computer, now you have a brand spanking new one?\u201d <\/td><\/tr>
\n Robin<\/strong>\n <\/td>\u201cSure thing Grandpa, I can teach you how to Skype, then we will be able to talk to each other more often, if I get good enough, maybe we can play chess online, that would be cool.\u201d <\/td><\/tr>
\n Grandpa<\/strong>\n <\/td>\u201cSounds good to me.\u201d <\/td><\/tr>
\n Robin<\/strong>\n <\/td>\u201cMummy\u201d <\/td><\/tr>
\n Mum<\/strong>\n <\/td>\u201cYes, Robin\u201d <\/td><\/tr>
\n Robin<\/strong>\n <\/td>\u201cWould it be alright for Grandpa to stay for a little bit longer?\u00a0 He could teach me a lot more and perhaps Danny could come and play with us.\u201d <\/td><\/tr>
\n Mum<\/strong>\n <\/td>\u201cWhat do you think Dad?\u201d <\/td><\/tr>
\n Grandpa<\/strong>\n <\/td>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t mind if that\u2019s alright with you.\u201d <\/td><\/tr>
\n Robin<\/strong>\n <\/td>\u201cHigh five Grandpa! \u00a0
\u201cI\u2019ll go and phone Danny to see when he can come over.\u201d <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mum \u201cRobin, please spend some time with Grandpa this Christmas.\u201d Robin \u201cYes mum, but he\u2018s so boring, everything was always better in his days, the snow was colder, the sun shone more and blah de blah de blah.\u201d Mum \u201cI know, but just be nice will you, he\u2019s quite lonely now since Grandma died.\u00a0 He\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10158782359051062_103813597863211":"","twitter_1225722811282530305_1225722811282530305":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,101],"tags":[108,110,109],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2","category-december-2019","tag-grandpa","tag-mum","tag-robin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbrNJE-3x","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swanseawriterscircle.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swanseawriterscircle.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swanseawriterscircle.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swanseawriterscircle.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swanseawriterscircle.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.swanseawriterscircle.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220,"href":"https:\/\/www.swanseawriterscircle.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swanseawriterscircle.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swanseawriterscircle.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swanseawriterscircle.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}