Fiona's Quiet Life

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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