A long, hot summer - Un verano soleado y cálido
London, 30th November 1989
Dear Alejandrina,
As usual, time flies and we do not write. We have no shame! Luckily, we cannot say things are going badly for us. We all are healthy, happy and busy. That is precisely the problem: we are too busy. The children have so many extracurricular activities that I am always coming or going somewhere. Now that Pablo is independent during the day, with his own key, his bicycle and friends who call him or come to meet him, it gets dark so early that I still have to collect him because I don’t like him going around by himself at night. I can’t get away from it!
I have some photos that I am not sure I have sent you, although they are from the summer. If you already have them give them to Alicia and Teresa. The one of Pablo was taken at school and I am sure I haven’t sent it because it is recent. As I say, we are very well on spite of the winter weather. It came suddenly; there is a frost every morning with temperatures 2 or 3 degrees below zero at night. It could be that the winter will be very cold because we’ve had a long and hot summer. Luckily it is sunny so the cold doesn’t matter.
In October we bought a little rabbit. It was 2 months old and very small and lovely. It has floppy years and at first both years dropped to the same side, which was very sweet, but now they have settled one either side of its head. It is called Timothy and is white with black nose and ears and black spots all over. It has grown about 200grs in two weeks! Already is quite big but has some more growing to do, so it will be large. As the weather is cold but nice, I let him run around in the garden and he takes shelter in the side lean-to where I keep the plants. He eats grass and runs everywhere. When it gets dark I put him in the hatch I made with wood and chicken wire. It is in the lean-to, opposite the kitchen window, so we can watch him from inside. At first we let him run around in the kitchen but he wees and poos everywhere and that is very unhygienic now he is bigger. Francesca is besotted and Oscar, who did not want to hear about having a pet, confessed he likes the bunny (although not the wee and poo). It will be nice to see him run around in the garden during the summer. I hope he will not eat my plants too much! In any case, there is enough space in the garden and I don’t think a lone rabbit can do too much damage.
I haven’t written to Alicia for so long that I don’t remember who wrote last. Give my love to both sisters and to the children and the Carloses. I know from you that they are all well. I would like to be able to write more often, but you are so many! When I write to my dad, mum and to you and one or other of my aunts, it is already a special occasion. I used to have more spare time and it was easy to be in touch. Now it is ever more difficult. Today I am minding my neighbour’s younger little girl because she had to go out and her daughter is a bit poorly. I am taking the chance to write because the baby fell asleep and I have nothing to do. Aren’t I lucky!
I hope you will write soon and tell me how everyone is. The situation over there is ugly, how do you all cope?
What you tell us about Pablo is so nice; it would be good if he chooses to go into music and radio broadcasting. One of my cousins is a disk jockey; he never wanted to study and took up organising parties and disk jockeying. He is so successful now that is earning more than his father (who is a doctor, they are the ones who live in Victoria, near San Fernando). So you never know.
What about Tony, how is he doing now he has graduated? And Mariana? I would like to know about them all. I will say goodbye, let’s see if Oscar also writes, although today he is coming home late so I am sure that I will send this and let him write later.
Lots of kisses,
Dear Alejandrina,
As usual, time flies and we do not write. We have no shame! Luckily, we cannot say things are going badly for us. We all are healthy, happy and busy. That is precisely the problem: we are too busy. The children have so many extracurricular activities that I am always coming or going somewhere. Now that Pablo is independent during the day, with his own key, his bicycle and friends who call him or come to meet him, it gets dark so early that I still have to collect him because I don’t like him going around by himself at night. I can’t get away from it!
I have some photos that I am not sure I have sent you, although they are from the summer. If you already have them give them to Alicia and Teresa. The one of Pablo was taken at school and I am sure I haven’t sent it because it is recent. As I say, we are very well on spite of the winter weather. It came suddenly; there is a frost every morning with temperatures 2 or 3 degrees below zero at night. It could be that the winter will be very cold because we’ve had a long and hot summer. Luckily it is sunny so the cold doesn’t matter.
In October we bought a little rabbit. It was 2 months old and very small and lovely. It has floppy years and at first both years dropped to the same side, which was very sweet, but now they have settled one either side of its head. It is called Timothy and is white with black nose and ears and black spots all over. It has grown about 200grs in two weeks! Already is quite big but has some more growing to do, so it will be large. As the weather is cold but nice, I let him run around in the garden and he takes shelter in the side lean-to where I keep the plants. He eats grass and runs everywhere. When it gets dark I put him in the hatch I made with wood and chicken wire. It is in the lean-to, opposite the kitchen window, so we can watch him from inside. At first we let him run around in the kitchen but he wees and poos everywhere and that is very unhygienic now he is bigger. Francesca is besotted and Oscar, who did not want to hear about having a pet, confessed he likes the bunny (although not the wee and poo). It will be nice to see him run around in the garden during the summer. I hope he will not eat my plants too much! In any case, there is enough space in the garden and I don’t think a lone rabbit can do too much damage.
I haven’t written to Alicia for so long that I don’t remember who wrote last. Give my love to both sisters and to the children and the Carloses. I know from you that they are all well. I would like to be able to write more often, but you are so many! When I write to my dad, mum and to you and one or other of my aunts, it is already a special occasion. I used to have more spare time and it was easy to be in touch. Now it is ever more difficult. Today I am minding my neighbour’s younger little girl because she had to go out and her daughter is a bit poorly. I am taking the chance to write because the baby fell asleep and I have nothing to do. Aren’t I lucky!
I hope you will write soon and tell me how everyone is. The situation over there is ugly, how do you all cope?
What you tell us about Pablo is so nice; it would be good if he chooses to go into music and radio broadcasting. One of my cousins is a disk jockey; he never wanted to study and took up organising parties and disk jockeying. He is so successful now that is earning more than his father (who is a doctor, they are the ones who live in Victoria, near San Fernando). So you never know.
What about Tony, how is he doing now he has graduated? And Mariana? I would like to know about them all. I will say goodbye, let’s see if Oscar also writes, although today he is coming home late so I am sure that I will send this and let him write later.
Lots of kisses,
Patricia
Londres, 30 de noviembre de 1989
Querida Alejandrina,
Como siempre, pasa el tiempo volando y nosotros sin escribir. ¡Somos muy caraduras! Por suerte, no podemos decir que nos vaya mal, estamos todos en muy buena salud, contentos y ocupados. Ese es el problema, demasiado ocupados. Los chicos tienen tantas actividades aparte de la escuela que me tienen de un lado a otro. Ahora que Pablo se independizó de día, con su llave, su bicicleta y sus amigos que lo llaman y lo vienen a buscar, resulta que oscurece tan temprano que igual tengo que irlo a buscar de aquí a allá porque hacen cosas a la noche y no quiero que ande solo si está oscuro. ¡No me salvo!
Tengo unas fotos que no estoy segura de haberle mandado, aunque son del verano. Si ya las tiene déselas a Alicia y Teresa. La de Pablo se la sacaron en la escuela y estoy segura de que no se la mandé porque es reciente. Como le digo, estamos muy bien, a pesar del invierno. Se vino con todo el frío, está escarchado todas las mañanas, con 2 o 3 grados bajo cero por las noches. Puede ser que toque un invierno muy frío porque tuvimos un verano muy largo y caluroso. Por suerte está soleado y aunque haga frío, si hay sol no importa.
En octubre compramos un conejito. Tenía dos meses y era muy chiquito, una preciosura. Tenía las dos orejas caídas para el mismo lado, porque es del tipo de orejas caídas, y era ten simpático, ahora las orejas se le acomodarun, una para cada lado de la cabeza. Se llama Timothy, es blanco con el hocico y las orejas negras y manchitas negras en el cuerpo. Ahora creció bastante, 200 gramos en las dos primeras semanas! Está grande pero le falta crecer más, va a ser grandote. Como está lindo el tiempo, aunque hace frío lo dejo correr todo el día en el jardín y se refugia en el costado donde están las plantas. Come pasto y corretea por todos lados. Cuando oscurece lo entro a su casita que le hice de madera y alambre tejido y está en el costado frente a la ventana de la cocina y lo vemos desde adentro. Al principio lo dejábamos corretear en la cocina pero hace pis y caca por todos lados y no es higiénico. Francesca lo adora y hasta Oscar, que no quería saber nada de tener animales se enternece y confesó que le gusta (menos el pis y la caca). En el verano va a ser lindo estar en el jardín y verlo correr en el sol. ¡Espero que no me coma mucho las plantas! De todas formas hay tanto en el jardín que no creo que un solo conejo pueda hacer mucho daño.
Querida Alejandrina,
Como siempre, pasa el tiempo volando y nosotros sin escribir. ¡Somos muy caraduras! Por suerte, no podemos decir que nos vaya mal, estamos todos en muy buena salud, contentos y ocupados. Ese es el problema, demasiado ocupados. Los chicos tienen tantas actividades aparte de la escuela que me tienen de un lado a otro. Ahora que Pablo se independizó de día, con su llave, su bicicleta y sus amigos que lo llaman y lo vienen a buscar, resulta que oscurece tan temprano que igual tengo que irlo a buscar de aquí a allá porque hacen cosas a la noche y no quiero que ande solo si está oscuro. ¡No me salvo!
Tengo unas fotos que no estoy segura de haberle mandado, aunque son del verano. Si ya las tiene déselas a Alicia y Teresa. La de Pablo se la sacaron en la escuela y estoy segura de que no se la mandé porque es reciente. Como le digo, estamos muy bien, a pesar del invierno. Se vino con todo el frío, está escarchado todas las mañanas, con 2 o 3 grados bajo cero por las noches. Puede ser que toque un invierno muy frío porque tuvimos un verano muy largo y caluroso. Por suerte está soleado y aunque haga frío, si hay sol no importa.
En octubre compramos un conejito. Tenía dos meses y era muy chiquito, una preciosura. Tenía las dos orejas caídas para el mismo lado, porque es del tipo de orejas caídas, y era ten simpático, ahora las orejas se le acomodarun, una para cada lado de la cabeza. Se llama Timothy, es blanco con el hocico y las orejas negras y manchitas negras en el cuerpo. Ahora creció bastante, 200 gramos en las dos primeras semanas! Está grande pero le falta crecer más, va a ser grandote. Como está lindo el tiempo, aunque hace frío lo dejo correr todo el día en el jardín y se refugia en el costado donde están las plantas. Come pasto y corretea por todos lados. Cuando oscurece lo entro a su casita que le hice de madera y alambre tejido y está en el costado frente a la ventana de la cocina y lo vemos desde adentro. Al principio lo dejábamos corretear en la cocina pero hace pis y caca por todos lados y no es higiénico. Francesca lo adora y hasta Oscar, que no quería saber nada de tener animales se enternece y confesó que le gusta (menos el pis y la caca). En el verano va a ser lindo estar en el jardín y verlo correr en el sol. ¡Espero que no me coma mucho las plantas! De todas formas hay tanto en el jardín que no creo que un solo conejo pueda hacer mucho daño.
Hace tanto que no le escribo a Alicia, no me acuerdo quién escribió última. Déles mis cariños a las dos y a los chicos y Carloses. Ya sé que están bien por las cartas que Ud nos manda. Me gustaría poder escribir más seguido, ¡pero son tantos! Cuando le escribo a mi papá, mamá y a Ud. y a alguna de mis tías ya es un acontecimiento. Antes tenía más tiempo y me resultaba fácil estar en contacto. Ahora se hace cada vez más difícil. Hoy estoy cuidándole la nena más chica a mi vecina que tuvo que salir y la nena está enfermita. Entonces aprovecho para escribir ya que se quedó dormida y no tengo nada que hacer. ¡Qué suerte!Espero que escriba pronto y me cuente cómo están todos, la situación allá está fea, ¿cómo se arreglan?
¡Qué lindo lo que nos cuenta de Pablo, a ver si se orienta hacia la música y la radiofonía! Un primo mío es disk jockey. Nunca quiso estudiar y se dedicó a los discos y a organizar fiestas y bailes. Ahora le va tan bien que casi gana más que el padre (el que es médico, que vive en Victoria, cerca de San Fernando). Así que nunca se sabe. Y Tony, ¿Cómo está ahora que está recibido? ¿Y Mariana? Me gustaría saber de todos.
Me despido, a ver si Oscar escribe también, pero viene tarde hoy, así que seguro que ésta la mando y que él escriba después.
Muchos besos,
Patricia
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