Fiona's Quiet Life

been put­ting insu­lat­ing stuff under the rug in the spare room what a dif­fer­ence it makes,had been put­ting it off due to pain­ful hip and hav­ing to move large bits of fur­niture. the kit­chen is a mess because the con­tents of the attic are all over it and the hall­way is a mess because it is full of things wait­ing for free­cyclers to come and col­lect them and empty card­board boxes. the din­ing room table is covered in bits of paper that i am sup­posed to be deal­ing with and the lounge is full of Christ­mas dec­or­a­tions lib­er­ated from the attic and unti­dily spill­ing from vari­ous boxes, this time i prom­ise i will put them away prop­erly on 12^th night. the bed­room is untidy because i am nat­ur­ally untidy.

i have vetoed any more watch­ing of films as he has been hav­ing bad dreams about the old days.….….….….and they are bor­ing, the films that is.

young­est baby grand­son was one year old today , they went to Bris­tol Zoo, not as good as Edin­burgh Zoo was the ver­dict. but they had a good day.

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we , women that is.….….are never happy .….…..today i escaped the house and went to vidal sas­soon for a hair­cut, it was full of women get­ting their hair done to look just like mine, pale wispy, shoulder length and with out trace of a curl…they were get­ting it ironed flat, mean­while i with my pale wispy ‚shoulder length depress­ingly unwavy hair des­per­ately wanted it changed for some­thing, any­thing different..it is still pale ‚wispy; uncurled but beau­ti­fully cut.

then i went to john lewis and bought a sofa bed as Christ­mas looms and the house is going to be full so that we can put up 5 of them , i think i may get a match­ing chair that turns into a single bed as well.….and at last i have seen a fridge and a freezer that will fit the space i have for them, now all we need are phones that work and we shall be sorted.

champneys delivered my order today so i am hugely impressed with the speed as i only ordered the items on saturday.and they put in some samples as well, so i get a gift while buy­ing gifts for others.

a good day

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char­ity shops can be so rude.….……What’s in there she says look­ing at my box full, “noth­ing elec­trical we can’t take any­thing elec­trical, no books we have too many books.” . etc etc.….….….fortunately my offer­ing was deemed sellable so i was allowed to leave it with them, and of course was temp­ted to buy a book on the way out even though we have sev­eral thou­sand of the bloom­ing things.

the extent of the prob­lem is vis­ible in the above photo. but i am get­ting there it is now mostly empty suit­cases and bubble wrap…well i like bubble wrap and am unable to part with any.it is left over from my psychotic epis­ode of buy­ing up everything on eBay.……well i did need the things i bought.…..except per­haps the piona num­ber plate. for my car…it is not on my car it is in the ward­robe. Basil has no idea that it is there .…i think i will sell it.

he is hungry i must go

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They may have been long dead but they were large and they were spiders. yes i have been back up in the attic. he was in pain and needed distracting.

it has been a good day today i got a lot of paper­work done on behalf of the ancient par­ent. since i sud­denly real­ised that let­ters were still going to her old home and it has been sold. so i have writ­ten to tax people and pen­sion people and share regis­trars and and.…and.

then i went to B&Q to buy draft excluder and other things but acci­dent­ally pos­ted my list with the let­ters so i got all sorts of things but no draft excluder. then went to Mat­ilan saw noth­ing to buy and was head­ing for another diy shop when Basil phoned and said he was feel­ing ill so went home instead.

tonight it has been old books from the attic now he is read­ing poems by robert ser­vice to me.

old­est grand son sent a link to a scary video on youtube.

time to dole out pills now.….….

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I’m ima­gin­ing the pic­ture in the paper as you are loaded into the ambu­lance with the uni­cycle lodged in one ori­fice and a piece of asparagus in your ear!

Hmm, with that thought I’m going to bed. Early night in the off­ing. Per­haps a wee night­cap first.….….

That was my older daugh­ter Marisa’s reac­tion when i said my ambi­tion was to ride round the new Tesco at Pol­lock on a uni­cycle. I told her not to fret as I didn’t think they would let me. She has done her Christ­mas card’s already !!!

We have hot water -yippee!

They came and looked at the gut­ter again today .it would be nice if they would actu­ally fix it instead of look­ing at it.

Nice loss adjuster vis­ited today and offered a sum for hall car­pet. it is half the cost of a new one if i were going to buy one but i like the mosaic.…… pic above (with doll’s bal­let shoe). now all i need is an expert mosaic fixer.

another day frittered away, shouldn’t have said that to him­self, now he feels guilty at keep­ing me stuck here, thinks i resent it , which i don’t , i just meant i should have been doing some­thing instead of play­ing with the computer.….….…..like .….…i don’t know.….….. ah well back to com­puter games.

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