Fiona's Quiet Life

girl-on-top.jpgI have been back in the land of the kilt for a week and am expect­ing the smal­lest grand­sons and gtheir par­ents tonight so there has been much? mak­ing of beds and removal of sharp objects and nuts.

It was a good trip down south,a few days in Chip­pen­ham with the littlest ones,visited a but­ter­fly farm, one attached itself to Nic­ola and didnt want to let go.

?then to Lon­don for Jonathan’s 18^th. we went to see ‘Wicked’ it was so bad i enjoyed it, to come out of a musical singing songs from a dif­fer­ent musical must mean some­thing. Judith lost the house keys so ian had to break into the house when we got back,fortunately there were lad­ders about as the win­dows were being painted. Party was a great suc­cess .…. the? BBQ ordered on the inter­net hadnt arrived so ian had to go and buy one, it was huge and in many many pieces, when i arrived? it was spread out on the ter­race? and Abby was on the phone to the shop say­ing it had no legs.….…..i found the legs and the girls and i ‚in our party finery and in the blaz­ing sun assembled it all,apart from 3 screws,

Basil’s ex wife? came and told us how to do it even though?

?a. she was wrong.

?b. she hadnt read the instruc­tions and

c. she didnt offer to help, thank god.

we man­aged it in plenty of time and it with the help of ian pro­duced some very tasty food.

the ori­ginal one arrived 3 days later.

went into the oxo tower bras­serie? for lunch on monday and then went on the lon­don eye.

revi­sion was done for exams in the tent the day after the party’ and we went to Chan­nings, the girls school to see Judith’s art work, i was very impressed.

wed­nes­day up to the lake dis­trict to join them upstairs? and get fit for the trek, got fit­ted out with boots and walk­ing clothes , girl-on-top.jpgwent? on a couple of five hour walks some of them vir­tical.? one gentle one was called ’ cats bells’ a cor­rup­tion of? a word for field of wild cats.

i informed him upstairs that i hated him a few times when ever i could catch my breath.

went to the cinema in Keswick to see pir­ates of the car­ri­bean 3 it was like being trans­por­ted into the 1960’s .

came home in time for garden party at ancient parent’s home but she had a col­lapse half an hour before it? so we sat in her room , she asleep and me singing along to the live band , they were play­ing such things as coun­try and west­ern and elvis.

ah well must see if the aero­plane is? on time.

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