Fiona's Quiet Life

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Basil singing ” She’s got eyes of blue and i never cared for eyes of blue” at his 80^th birth­day party.….….…..he tell’s me he sang it for a week after we first met.

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i have suc­ceeded in aston­ish­ing my hus­band after all these years of marriage,

party great suc­cess, friends from his school days and favour­ite cous­ins all turned up and seemed to be hav­ing a great time. he even got up and sat for a while ‚hold­ing court in the din­ing room. his friends were mes­mer­ized by the loop of 198 pho­tos of them and him in their youth. and the cap­tion com­pet­i­tion pho­tos i prin­ted out were very reveal­ing. The above photo is one i prin­ted with a word baloon com­ing out of his mouth. all my guests vis­ited the upstairs flat and all his vis­ited us and in fact they were the last to leave this party hav­ing taken up res­id­ence in the din­ing room.

the par­able of the feed­ing of the 5000 seems to have its mod­ern day equi­val­ent last night as i tried to get the leftovers back into the fridge. for­tu­nately my younger daugh­ter and two wee grand­sons came and helped us to eat some today.

i am off to load the dish­washer again.

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yes­ter­day they came and fit­ted my floor tiles.……it is lovely to have a fin­ished kit­chen floor after all these months.

Thump. .….……woof woof woof was heard through the thin par­ti­tion between our half of the house and upstairs entrance hall.

He comes round..guess what says he, come and see.

his hall ceil­ing was on his hall floor, and his lovely lights hanging by their wire.

i must get back to the food pre­par­a­tion, it is dif­fi­cult to do without him­self get­ting suspicious.

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So they came this morn­ing to lay Amtico tiles where the dam­aged ones were removed in Feb­ru­ary. he smears the non dry­ing adhes­ive on the floor and lays some tiles beautifully.….….…i go in to see if he wants a cup of tea. they are very dark says i, yes he says con­tinu­ing to lay them ‘are you sure they are the right ones ’ asks i.yes says he’. so i go and get the ori­ginal box with the left over ones from when the floor was laid. oops says he.

so off he went, leav­ing a very sticky floor , so i cant get within a meter of the sink or taps, or the cooker and the fridge and freezer are in the middle of the floor.….….…..someone is driv­ing the replace­ments from Eng­land tonight and a team is wait­ing to lay them tomor­row, so they tell me. we shall see.

Everest have left a live elec­tric light in a puddle and have screwed the gut­ter to the wood facing, not put­ting it on brack­ets so it is bent and dripping…on to the light. in the puddle. they also left huge bits of wood with nails stick­ing in them all over the ter­race and two huge ceil­ing sup­port bits of scaf­fold­ing and wood. in the room where my party food is to be on Sunday. .….…if i get any pre­pared in the dis­aster that is the kitchen.

i have given up caring, if my friends and fam­ily cant take me as they find me then they are not much good as friends.

hav­ing given up on the painter and the loss adjus­tor ever agree­ing who’s fault it is that they spilled paint on the car­pet and removed it des­pite me telling them not to i have bought a huge rug and painted the floor boards that show, a creamy white. it looks great.

there is now a con­tinu­ous loop of 189 pic­tures of basil on the com­puter screen. and i have prin­ted off sev­eral and lam­in­ated them to use as drinks mats. and i have prin­ted off some with cap­tion bubbles for people to put their cap­tions in. it is amaz­ing what i can get up to sit­ting here keep­ing him com­pany, he has no idea.

at last after 17 years of a leak­ing gar­age roof i have had it replaced so a dry gar­age at last.….i hope.

and so to sleep.

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they have told me they will be here tomor­row morn­ing to fix french windows.…we shall see.

sneaked out and got some food for party today. oh the excitement!!

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