Fiona's Quiet Life

I drove down to Chip­pen­ham .….…near Bris­tol, last Thursday to visit Nic­ola and Chris­topher and to baby sit the wee ones while they went to his boss’s third wed­ding, Chris resplen­dent in his kilt amongst all those sas­sen­achs.. it is a lovely place full of alley­ways and a mar­ket where you can buy lovely fresh olives and cheeses etc..

couldn’t make sat nav work because it is a machine and i hate instruc­tion books, i only got lost once any­way and that was half a mile from my own home and manged the other 398.4 miles no problem.

was feel­ing slightly guilty not going by train and using finite resources but i over­took two large trucks car­ry­ing rail­way car­riages so if car­riages go by road why shouldn’t i.

small chil­dren get up very early in the morning .

it was lovely play­ing with them …the pho­to­graph is Nic­ola and Aiden mak­ing daisy chains.

they whirl round and round till they fall over.

on Tues­day i drove to Lon­don to stay the night with Abby and the girls.……Ian was in Bar­ba­dos hav­ing lunch with Garry Sobers (crick­eter) and not see­ing Eng­land play cricket.….….16 and 13 year old girls whirl round and round till they fall over as well.

this was the first time i have been on any trip alone since i was 16 and there was fam­ily at the end of the trip.

lots of lovely new comfy fur­niture arrived today so now i must get it all moved round to look good and i have offered the old stuff on free­share and someone is com­ing to col­lect it tomorrow.

didn’t do much today as i ate a scone and cream etc a couple of days ago and i am sens­it­ive to wheat so i have been feel­ing a bit off today but will be fine tomor­row. did some more paper­work today , it is amaz­ing the bits of paper that keep arriv­ing need­ing dealt with and it is amaz­ing how fast the cur­rent account goes down when there is no income going into it.

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