I forgot again. How could I forget? It’s Jamie’s birthday in 2 weeks. He’ll be 7 and I’m going to miss it. We were going to go to Sydney for his birthday, to see Grandma James. She’s going to bee on stage at the Opera House. She’s going to sing Happy Birthday to Jamie in Italian. They had better still go. I don’t want Jamie missing out, it’s going to be a big surprise for him. He lives hearing her sing, he likes to sing with her, even in other languages. He doesn’t know what the words or the songs mean nut he loves to sing them, specially with Grandma James. She’s much nicer than Grandma Stevens. Grandma S is a holy terror, literally. She scares the living shit out of everyone, even Mum, always has. She reckons she’s Gods favourite child and the rest of us are evil creatures, especially her own daughter (Mum). So we stay away from her. Mum and Dad used to take us to visit her until she started trying to wash Jamie’s face with carbolic soap because he was a ‘Filthy child, just like his mother’. Now she’s in a home and she’s not on our visiting list any more. She’s not allowed around us. Grandma James is great though. Her name is really Jamie (Mum and Dad named Jamie Bug after her), but we call her James so we don’t get mixed up and Jamie gets called Bug (as in Cute As). Now she even has James put on all her show posters and everyone calls her James, she gets a kick out of it too.
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