AFTER MADNESS - CH 2 : 2 - Relatively Speaking

My older sister, Sandra, looks just like Margaret did at the same age. It is quite scary. I don't look like any of them. Thank god! I tried to add her on facebook but no reply.

One of my cousins, Phillip is playing all over Sheffield with his guitar. I listened to some of his stuff and its good. Folk music, I think you'd call it. My cousin Melanie is extremely funny, she thinks she got her temper from me - could be. I do have one. My cousin Cristine I only got in touch with yesterday. She is still with Catweazle by the looks of it. (Her husband looks just like the Catweazle character off the tv in the eighties.) Her son added me and he looks just like his dad. Last time I saw him he was about six years old and very, very shy. We were at my Auntie Hazel's- my cousins' mum - and playing in the garden. My two were about fifteen and thirteen so they seemed very big to my cousins' little kids. Gavin is Chris's boy's name. He stood on the edge of the lawn looking as if he wanted to join in the rough and tumble but didn't know high. I told my eldest boy, Duncan to go and get him and turn him upside down. Kids love that and he did love it. Unfortunately Chris was a tad anal and didn't like him getting grubby. He's a boy!!! I used to think there was something wrong with my two if they came in from playing, clean!

I haven't spoken to any of my family for over ten years and it feels weird but strangely nice. Not Margaret though. I can't talk to her unless she tells me what happened that day in the clubhouse. John, my stepdad looks insane on his facebook photo, really insane. Margaret is eighty this year and she is still trying to look coquettish! Its foul!