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My parents live in England, and I live in Canada. I don't see them often. They used to
come and visit on a plane, and we would pick them up at Toronto airport. But now they
are older and say the flight is too long for them.
I went to visit them last year, with my son, their grandson. They live by the ocean, and we
could hear the sound of the waves through the bedroom window and see the blue water
of the English channel. There is an island with a castle on top in the bay. We walked
many times on the beach and picked up pebbles and feathers. We visited the island and
walked up the steep hill to the castle.
My mother likes to cook. She makes delicious cakes and pies. We went for a hike and
picked wild blackberries. She made them into a pie that smelled so good coming out of
the oven and tasted so good on our plates. She has many cook books with recipes from
all over the world and likes to try new things. She can make pastry very easily and rolls it
with a rolling pin quickly. When I tried to make pastry, it sticks to the rolling pin, it has
holes at the bottom of the pie, and it tastes like a rock! Her pastry is crisp and tender.
My father likes to garden. He grows lettuce, carrots, potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers and
many flowers. When my mother was very ill last year, she had to stay in bed. He planted
roses outside her bedroom window, so she could open the curtains and see them. Their
house has small room with windows all around, and they plant seeds there in winter in
small pots. The warmth from the sun makes the seeds grow, and in spring they are a
good size to be planted outside.
In the house beside them and in the house in front of them, there are older ladies whose
husbands have died. These ladies do not drive, so my father takes my mother and the
two ladies to the town for shopping every week. He helps one find her groceries because
she cannot see well. He helps her take tapes of books from the library so she can listen
to books instead of reading them because of her eyes. He helps them cut their grass and
fix anything that is broken in the house.
I am very proud of my parents; they are over eighty years old and often hurt when they
move around. But still they help other people, and they help each other. They have been
married for over fifty years, but still my father loves my mother enough to plant roses for
her to cheer her up when she was ill.