"Yep. But he won't let me call him 'uncle'." He smiled. "He's okay. Doing better each day I think, especially now that he's started school again. I'm going to have to take the mickey out of him when we go to the Guy Fawkes thing for being out on a school night." He was going to have fun with that.
"I might try reading them again, even if I prefer Dickens. I did like 'The Hobbit' though. And 'His Dark Materials' even if the author got loads of stuff wrong." He grinned. "Don't worry, I won't tell anyone. Don't know if you have a telly or access to one but if you ever want to watch movies on that, I have some on discs I could loan you.