I found this letter I wrote to my sister after Tony’s email outburst [see previous post]. I had thought matters over for two weeks before phoning Pam. It’s fair for say she underreacted to what I told her.

So I tried a letter, but her response was to make excuses for her son. Rereading this, I realize that the free year on AOL had expired in May 2000, and I’d then been charged for the next year. In other words, Tony had had almost two years, not one – and still hadn’t managed to change ISP &/or find an alternative payment method.

Here’s the letter, which fills in the background to Millennium madness, and also mentions a few other things I’d put up with from my nephew…

My sister has been ignoring my existence since November 2007, but she has never told me to my face that she wants nothing to do with me, much less why. Sometime after the telephone row on 05 May [see previous post], Pam & I met at Ma’s. She wouldn’t talk to me at first, and refused to discuss what’s going on.

Gradually, the ice seemed to melt & during a walk to the bus stop we seemed to get to a point from which we could talk further, and perhaps eventually sort things out.

I was badly mistaken. Again, without actually saying so – or why – Pam went back to ignoring me. Finally, on July 24 I wrote* her the following letter…

*My sister had just started using email, was discovering the internet, and was thinking of doing a computing course – until her son (Tony) came back from the USA where his marriage had broken down. He now uses her computer & as far as I know pretty much hogs it.