Rosie is the new King Charles Spaniel in the Julius household where I am staying all this week. She’s a beautiful puppy, full of fun and always misbehaving.
My sister, Beverley, and I were brought up with dogs. They were an important part of our childhood. So it is not surprising that she has chosen to have them as a part of her family.
I’ve just been speaking to your father on the phone who tells me how much you have learnt in your first week of life. He was happy to report that your mother and he had a bit more sleep last night, as you decided not to disturb them too much. I remember when we were living in New York in 1986, shortly after your father was born, how many times he would awake during the night. We were living on the 21st floor of a Manhattan apartment building on 47th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues. We had so little sleep one night that I really was thinking of throwing him out of the window. Fortunately I didn’t, otherwise you wouldn’t be here today!
It has been raining for most of the day here in Aldeburgh. But that doesn’t stop our enjoyment, although I would very much like to go out for a walk but don’t want to get wet. This is all-too-typical English summer weather.
Tomorrow I will take my mother Avis back to London before flying home to Prague.
Grandpa Jonathan
Aldeburgh, Suffolk
