14 LETTER TO MUMMY

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34087, 26 February 1976, Page 4

14 LETTER TO MUMMY

( By

ALICE K GRANT)

Dear Mummy, Just thought I would take the chance to pen you a few lines and tell you all about the very sweet and wonderful television I watched on Tuesday night. After I had got the kiddies to bed I popped on my rollers and those powder-blue fluffy slippers you gave me and settled down with Reg for a really nice evening’s viewing.

The first thing we saw was “Close to Home”, and my goodness, was it .sad! Poor Vai, who was a wonderful little person really, had been killed in a car accident, but Don was coping awfully well. I said to Reg, “1 hope you cope as well as that when I pass on, dear.” Reg opened one eye. grunted, and went back to sleep. Dear Reg. He always finds it hard to express the deep emotions. Then we watched something which Reg likes called “Star Trek”. It was awfully complicated, all about some people on a space ship who ) were coming back in time to Earth in 1968, and one of them had a cat called Isis which looked rather like our own dear Quince, and one of them was called Doctor Spock but he didn’t look as though he would know the first thing about children. I found it all a little difficult to cope with, so I went and bottled some preserves. Then we watched something called “The World of Television”, which was all about television in Germany and France. It was very interesting really, except that it was very boring. They didn’t say so, but I’ll bet our own dear Sharon would go down wonderfully well over there. Then we watched “All in the Family”. I don’t know why people keep laughing at Edith, she seems to be a i wonderful little person and an absolute saint. How she has managed to put up with

that awful Archie all these years 1 shall never understand. Still, they say that still waters run deep. Isn’t, it wonderful news about Gloria’s baby? I must knit her some booties.

Then we watched “Tonight”, and saw that ever so nice man with the nice English accent who wrote that enormous book about bunnies. He was quite right.

Then we saw that nice Mr Muldoon being very firm indeed with some people who were trying to make him say something about Mr Watt. My goodness, he was firm! I knitted him some socks last year during the election and he looked as though he might have been wearing them. Well I must close now as I can hear the scones boiling over on the stove. Much love to you and Pops. from ALICE.