Fiona's Quiet Life

I held her upright in her chair,my wet hair drip­ping down my neck, her breath­ing stopped two or three times, and there was not a thing i could do to help but hold on to her.

Hav­ing decided long hair made me look like a bag lady, i went to cousin Rosalyn’s salon for a hair cut, the usual banter was going on , hoots of female laughter, when a young woman in the next chair starts to choke…we all knew she has a tracheotomy tube to help her breath and we knew she can drown very quickly if water gets into the tube so great care had been taken.…what we didn’t know was that she needs a suc­tion pump every so often to clear the tubes and if she starts to cough the tube comes out .
Roslyn ran across the road for a doc­tor, the assist­ant dialled 999 and i held on to the breath­less young woman.two doc­tors and a nurse ran over to us, but who keeps suc­tion pumps . they did what they could with oxy­gen and an ambu­lance and a car full of para­med­ics arrived within a very few minutes with much needed pump.….…so all is well.

so som­body out there please design a port­able suc­tion pump .

after­wards we were all very shaken.…It brought back the last few hours of Basil’s life … 5 years ago on Feb­ru­ary 7^th.…..so i am sit­ting wrapped up in a blanket feel­ing exhausted.

Oth­er­wise my quiet life is still quiet

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Hav­ing an excel­lent birthday,

i have been quiet because noth­ing hap­pens much in my life.…well it does but it is much the same as in every­body else’s life.

we have sur­vived gale force winds, snow and ice and it is now just cold and damp.

i temp­ted fate buy buy­ing up all sorts of com­mon cold rem­ed­ies before Christ­mas and then say­ing ‘bring it on’ to the uni­verse .…so of course on box­ing day the com­mon cold hit me , but all over now and i shall be more respect­ful of the ‘unseen’ forces

So
The saga of the hole in the drive went on.….and on.…and on.
they dug it , filled it up. dug more of it , filled that up.…..took pho­tos, decided it wasn’t deep enough and dug it up again block­ing me in the house two weeks before Christ­mas unable to bet in and out with fest­ive food parcels.……but at last, on Christ­mas eve, after over two years mess­ing about they fin­ished it and took away all their stuff.….yippee.

catered the cam­era club party with one days warn­ing, …got a phone call from club pres­id­ent say­ing can you cater the party on Thursday…i cant i said ’ i am going to the cam­era cub party’.….….oh oops ‘yes i can’

so Him upstairs and i swooped on makro.….….and bought stuff.….….…..then asked the budget.….. ‘approx £1 per head.….a chal­lenge or what.…..but we got it done.

saw stuff in asda…£ 1.50 each or £3 for two.…i had to think about that one

Ebay has annoyed me because you can­not leave neg­at­ive feed­back for a buyer…i pos­ted things to a couple of p[eople before they had payed because i didn’t want to stand in post office queues for each one.…..their feed back was 100% positive.….later i read the feed back and it said they ordered but didn’t pay, but those buy­ers and me were unable to label it neg­at­ive feed back.…..be warned.

Our Fam­ily con­tinue to keep Tom the builder going.….…as Marisa’s boys are now both over 6ft tall they take up a lot of room if you add their enorm­ous friend and sev­eral musical instru­ment into the mix so they have applied for plan­ning per­mis­sion to add a couple more rooms to their house.….….and Nic­ola had had Tom mak­ing their lovely new house water tight.……well it will be soon, the gales showed up a few wee prob­lems but that wasn’t unexpected.

it is nice hav­ing all the boys so close.….….…the grand­sons , not tom the builder and his boys…though they are good fun too.

Him upstair’s romance goes on apace.…they went to Kenya ..brought me back cof­fee, yum.

Gar­lic with no sep­ar­ate cloves, just one big bulb…how cool is that.

Basil still in thoughts, one of his grand daugh­ters is doing a por­trait of ‘an old per­son’ for a school pro­ject . so i was look­ing out photos.….some i had taken on a fast shut­ter looked as though he was mov­ing when i flicked through them.…..nice in an odd way.

I have bought an Air fryer.….….it is won­der­ful, bung a slice of some­thing tasty or some skampi in it turn a dial and wait.…..so chrisp and hot …even makes frozen chips taste good.…huge dif­fer­ences in price though so if temp­ted ‚shop around.

got to fin­ish now as it is my birth­day so i need no excuse to watch rub­bish telly today.

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I have not been idle.….….….well no more than usual.…..well i have had a lot of indol­ent moments but the sum­mer was taken up with grand­sons of assor­ted sizes…they seem to like stay­ing here, heav­ens knows why because i am way too selfish to spoil them in any way and grump quite a lot.

what a fast year this has been , i remem­ber my grand­mother say­ing that but now i see what she meant.…and she used to say
” you’ll appre­ci­ate me when I’m gone”.…..now as a ‘granny’ i do appre­ci­ate her allow­ing us to invade her life.

so
what has been happening.

Nic­ola finally got the keys to her house and all the stuff was moved in…well not all the stuff Pickford’s, try as they might …and they did try,even remov­ing the lounge door…were unable to get the sofa in to the lounge. so it went into the gar­age ‚for­tu­nately tom…remember Tom of my extens­ive build­ing works… Tom had been asked to make some repairs to the new house as water was get­ting in in a couple of places.…..we did know about that before buying.….….……anyway…where was i . ah yes Tom and his brother took down a ugly , use­less garden wall and they got it through the patio doors.

the wee boys stayed at my house for a wee while, and then went to the other grand par­ents while we painted their bedrooms…they objec­ted to lilac col­oured walls… and peach colours…the rooms a now a nice boy­ish blue..

there is a hole at the end of the drive ..it has been there for weeks, Scot­tish water came, dug it , put a plastic cover on it and went away.….….….getting in and out are difficult.…i have scraped the side of my car on the stone gate post.…..i might get cross soon.

i think up all sorts of things to put on ths blog but such is the state of my brain the things fly from it never to be recalled.….…so it con­tinuses to be a mundane record of the life of a wee sccot­tish widow.….…4 and a half years now…took a rose up to him on our anniversary .

my house looks like a jumble sale…i am selling things for a great niece to fund her trip to do good things in Peru…and selling things for a cousin and selling a  chan­delier for him upstairs.….….…we just want enough to buy a good bottle of wine for that one.….….….…:-)

My brother was over from Denmark,this time bring­ing 7 Danes with him, we had a very jolly even­ing here…i need a big­ger din­ing table.… and we all went for a Glas­gow buf­fet curry on another night.

scooped up Cameron and took him through to the Edin­burgh fest­ival fringe as he had never been.…excellent fun. his insulin pump has been a won­der­ful improve­ment in the man­age­ment of his dia­betes, the first few weeks were scary and exhaust­ing for them all as his mother had to check his blood sugar ever two hours at night… and wor­ry­ing as he was to go to orches­tra camp.…..but apart from some very low sug­ars all has gone well. His pump comes with a soft toy called Len­nie lion which he is sup­posed to put it in at night…he has his pump in a pocket sewn into his PJ’s .…..so we take Len­nie all over the place and pho­to­graph him , there is now a page on face-book ded­ic­ated to Len­nie lion and his adven­tures, much enjoyed by the younger chil­dren with type 1 dia­betes all over the world.

right, I am hungry now due to some lawn mow­ing and tree prun­ing today…which reminds me…how many daugh­ters’ can phone their moth­ers and ask to bor­row her axe.….…..as did Nic­ola last week

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there is a hole at the end of the drive­way, it has been there nearly a week.…..i have been wait­ing for 22 months for Scot­tish water to join up the pipes put in by Tom the builder… to the water mains thus bypassing the old lead pipes that have been here for over 100 years.
there is no sign of any­thing hap­pen­ing to join up the water or to fill in the hole again, it seems they do the bit on the path, then they join up a bit of pipe, then they dig half way across the road . join up and fill in hole then do it all over agin on the other side of the road…seems a bit palaver to me.

mean­while they told me they were not going to dig it , so i didnt get my car out..then they dug it any­way so after a few days of not going out i even­tu­ally had to to get food for both me and visitors.……Abby and JJ com­ing too…so i got the car out with great dif­fi­culty, bought lots of food.….…..then scraped the side of the car on the gate­post try­ing to get back in.grr!!

my quiet life has been any­thing but quiet,quite noisy in fact, small grand­sons came to stay, then large grand­son came to stay now small ones are stay­ing and so are their parents,then quiet for a week till they all come back dur­ing the great house move.

so you can see why i don’t blog much..who wants to hear all about grandchildren.

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sorry to have been absent for so long,
i havenot been idle, i have had suces­sions of grand­chil­dren staying,thay have all gone for a short time so, when i have given the house a good tidy up i will be back to the blog­ging. mean­while the old laptop gave up today so 15 yr old grand­son and i went and got a new one.….it is always use­ful to have a teen­ager with you when buy­ing new tec stuff.

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