Here is the first of my special guest blogs, it is an email from Bea, aged seven, to her grandmother…….
dear mormor
i hope you will com to see ous in abu dabi i will com to see you soon if my sister in italy abu dabi is nice but its hot but it dasent mater if its hot and theire av are mall its cold marine mall and side it. it rain at 5 aclok in the aftenun and before it rain theire is funder and then it rain. daddy as is hork and as to rit in the paper infakt its aredy riten in the paper but he asto rit iven beter then in the paper and then they put it in the paper .we fininsh scool at one aclok in ti aftenun and then we av fun this aftenun are going home in someone is going to kip us in the gingskate hotel its very nis there and its here we are staing in the moment because we cant find are house wet in abu dabi . how are the cats are their aving fun in italy? in abu dabi we like it very much and their av evon are kids play grond in maks and speser mall .mommy and daddy are still loking for are house but its hard because abu dabi is very big and their ave lots of trafik to in the morning their ave so much trafik one time we hos so lite for scool and evrean hos going in class and i wos the last one but after mi my friend arerivd so i wasnt rely the last one she wos the last one but she wonset my friend that day but now she my friend and i ave lots of difrent friend then her i ave are friend that is the friend that i had the fist day at scool she ask me do you want to bee my friend ? and i sed yes .
hopes to see you soon
lots of love beaxxxxxxxxxxxx
Helen
Bea is quite beautiful – what a lovely letter !!! I can definitely see her mummies face there !!!!
Lucky you !!
At long last the English language has undergone a spelling reform!
Finally, a literate posting.
I didn’t know you were Swedish. I’m Norwegian by nationality, (Fathers family), born in UK so British Citizen, but my Farfar and Farmor moved to Sweden when I was young and I spoke Swedish to them. I have also lived and worked in Germany and Belgium, and now i’m in France. My husband and I used to converse in German, and I talk to my dog in Swedish just to keep some of it going, although ‘com til meg’ and ‘barra bra’ is becoming the limit of my vocabulary! I think it is phenomenal that you speak to the children in Swedish and French as I feel it is important to get their ‘ear’ in when they are young and then new languages do not seem insurmountable.
I enjoy your blog and feel privileged to be able to read as a ‘fly on the wall’ all your ‘adventures’.
She’s a cheeky little love that B.
Her tale reminds me of a letter I forged with my mum’s signature to Mr. McDonald-Fyfe, our sports master.
“Mi son carnt play gaims today becos he is a mouslem and all us mouslems av a dai orf for ramdam”.
I was 17 at the time.
Keep up the good work (both of you). G
The mother of this little blogger once left a note saying: I m in a taun samvär!
Beautiful, beautiful child.
Helena,
Poor Bea! she looks so sad but she’s trying to be a brave little soldier. She is your star, no doubt about it!
Sharyn G
Who is the intriguing snusmormor? Must have something to do with mormor=granny? – so, a Joycean snoring granny/granpa,
step-granny, Godmother..witty, whatever!
Darling little Bea, battling on – her first ‘writing language’ must be French, so a great effort – looks a bit Swedish on paper – anything to do with you Helena?
yes jose, mormor is granny but snus is snuff, so to do with what granny calls the grandchildren but i can’t explain why….probably a swedish habit of making up words that suit.
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