Fiona's Quiet Life

we hap­pily dressed the young­est grand son in the headgear that i had bought for their dress­ing up box in Egypt last year, and he played his part per­fectly but it occurred to me this morn­ing as i was remov­ing the rem­nants of his broth­ers cat make up that Joseph was Jew­ish and the head dress was Arab.

ah well.

so

Chip­pen­ham is a small place so why did the nurs­ery school and the primary school sched­ule their carol con­cert and their nativ­ity play on the same night at the same time, thus caus­ing prob­lems for fam­il­ies with a small child in each performance.

the wee ones father is work­ing away from home for most of the week and was not able to go to either, so i came down for my monthly babysit a day early.……well actu­ally there were a couple of other reas­ons why i was down early.….…..anyway Nic­ola had man­aged to go to the carol rehearsal so she went with the younger boy who was play­ing Joseph.….….a speak­ing part des­pite the old jokes about Jew­ish hus­bands not get­ting a word in.….….….and i went with the older one who was for some reason dressed as a cat.……there were appar­ently cats and mice in the stable…the con­cert was great but i was very con­cerned by the wait out­side the church before it star­ted, the whole primary school plus par­ents, grand­par­ents, uncles,aunts etc were all queued along a very busy road and in the church grounds with cars revers­ing out of the gates and in tiny spaces where small chil­dren were excitedly jump­ing about. and at the end it was a mêlée i was lucky that Aiden found me quickly.

their Auntie Mar­isa sent them Santa outfits.….….…way too cute.

more of why i was down on Sunday to Lon­don, Ian had to go to Hong Kong sud­denly and his ticket for the Eddy Izzard appear­ance at wemb­ley was going beg­ging so as i also needed to be reunited with my suit­case i drove down on Sat­urday arriv­ing in plenty of time to get to wembley.

the best thing about Wemb­ley is there is no queue for the ladies toi­lets, it is won­der­ful to find a venue that actu­ally real­ises that you need a decent amount of loos for women.

at last i now have all my photographs.…..hundreds of the things.….….….and all the con­tents of the suit­case. so while i was not impressed with the flight being can­celled at the last minute i was impressed with TAM get­ting us to Lon­don via Paris and get­ting our cases to us eventually.

I have been edit­ing lots of pho­tos of waterfalls

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