Letters of Hadji and Nonna

Dear Hadji, How are you?  Are you well?  I hope you are in fine fettle because I have just returned from Auntie Bridie’s funeral.  It was a bit of a…

Dear Honourable Hadji Nothing changes. Not even the fact that you have seemed to have forgotten that we do have ” the internet!” here in Elgon. I admit, however, that…

Nonnie, Nonnie, Nonnie, Does there have to be a reason to get in touch?  After all we meant to each other?  Come on, surely I don’t need an excuse to…

Dear H How goes the flow? Since receiving your very much uninvited and thereby unexpected missive I have been doing some recollecting of my own. Taking myself down to the…

Dear H Just been looking at an old picture of Roger. Handsome devil. I feel I have hit a time warp and been sucked back into a vortex of lifetimes…

It didn’t take long for his response. Reopening nerve after nerve. Sour memory after sour memory My Dearest Nonna What do you mean “that American”; she has a name and…

Hadji, me again! I have been thinking and re-thinking about your email. It was a shock for sure. In any event now that we are communicating again, at least in…

Dear H! Well that’s a turn up for the book isn’t it? And only after, how long, twenty years? I don’t believe you have the brass neck to talk about…

I received a short note today.  It came by post.  The postmark was Washington.  It was short.  It was simple.  It was succinct. It simply said……. My dearest darling Nonna,…