Fiona's Quiet Life

I have Neil Dia­mond on a con­tinual loop on tele­vi­sion it is the film of a radio two pro­gramme, remem­ber the ’ good old days’ when you could only listen to the radio. i took a photo or 52 of him singing.

but i have tick­ets for his visit to Hamp­den and i am all excited. i fell for him when i was 13 and he was an old man of at least 20.

so yes­ter­day i was gen­er­ally mak­ing a mess by chan­ging the bed and empty­ing cup­boards in search of an errant char­ger when i noticed a woman peer­ing through the rhododendrons.…or is it rhodo­dendra any­way, odd beha­viour i thought so i stared back.……she came up the drive and said she was look­ing at the win­dows because she and her brother and sis­ter were writ­ing a book about their time liv­ing here as chil­dren and couldnt remem­ber if they were arched or square topped, and so i said ” you are a Boyle and came here a couple of years ago” yes she said. so in she came and told me all about the ori­ginal uses for the rooms.…..i am at the moment sit­ting in the maids room.……so i am look­ing out the pho­tos i took of the wall art before the wall­pa­per went back up, she said they did it at a party many years ago , a little wine had been taken and the pho­tos of their bus trip here .…..so next time there is an upstairs/downstairs party she and her sib­lings are invited.
neil is now sin­ing ‘home before dark’ for the 6^th time which reminds me ,
last night the cam­era club decided on a jaunt to Bells bridge at night to pho­to­graph the Clydes bridges all lit up but a t 10:30 p.m. it was still day­light so we gave up and went to the bar at the crown plaza and pho­to­graphed each other.

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