we've complained to the host I'm missing
the talk and so I was feeling a bit down
1d the poor skin include lots of letters
who by door I suddenly got a new lease
of life up treasure
my name is Janet I'm 84 years old I live
in Scottish Borders town of an ugly
thing with my husband Pat who is 87
since we've confined to the house I'm
missing the talk and the bladders that I
used to have with the people who come in
to visit me and so I was feeling a bit
down my dog granddaughter
Katie Barnett and the great idea of
asking her friends to write letters to
me one day the post Kim and to lots of
letters to my door and I suddenly got a
new lease of life thought you might like
to hear what some of the contents are
that have given me such pleasure
Highnesses dear Janet I hope this letter
finds you well I've just returned from
Salzburg in Austria I was doing an
awesome placement there and the
intensive care unit and January it was
an amazing experience and I learned so
many new skills to chicken port for when
I qualify in September and then she
sends me all these pictures places I
have never been a know all about but
will never be able to see so now I'm
seeing them I think that's wonderful
this escrow a lovely boy called Ian who
left and free separa I was my oldest
grandson's best friend he said do you
find Charlotte Katy been chewed you
might be stuck in the house for a whole
quail and would enjoy a Lee note so here
you go hopefully the spiders passes soon
and you get out and about again from Ian
wasn't that lovely it wasn't up trash
sorry about this but these letters
dear mrs. Timmons I hope you are keeping
well during this very odd time no I'm
not feeling too husband my name is
Melanie you can call me Mel sadly my
grandmother's are no longer with us so I
am grateful to Katie for spreading the
word about her great and lovely Janet
Simmons I like this one because I knew
the weekend allah wrote her and she's a
very lovely weekend oh do you like baby
Janet I really love beating but never
really have the time I went down to
England to visit killing ten days ago
but I'll be weekend
I'm big my first ever loss of bread I've
never been able to pick something always
goes wrong with the cakes or the pies or
anything
I'm no it's not another child but I'm
not very good at it and so it's nice to
know that she likes it
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when I was 11 the French teacher at les
McGehee Co high school that I went to
had been an intelligence officer during
the war and worked in Paris and he made
friends with a teacher from a school in
Paris this was a girl called Nicole Don
Roy then and she wanted to be my pen pal
and this is her first letter and says
Monty April the 26 1948 dear Janet I am
your pen pal my name is Nicole I am 12
years old now to machine the next person
French and I kind of read French onto a
branch after all these years I feel so
ashamed of myself I used to sit at the
bottom of a bag black pet bank and the
main embellish that I lived in and read
these letters from France telling me all
about Paris which I really knew nothing
about what a deference our lives have
been and yet we've been the wonderful
friends
John and I have been together for 62
years
that's a longer been married but
brighten it up we got romance
Charlie was 16 and I was 19 and I are
keeping herself busy or trying to keep
herself as a while we're still indoors I
have no problem keeping myself happy
because I read books or no sports on the
television anymore oh and I'm so pleased
about that because I'm not in charge in
a television changer so I'm quite
pleased just puts away for a brief while
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