Fiona's Quiet Life

still like a zom­bie another night with out sleep. i must ask them to do a thyroid test on him again. so i have done noth­ing except can­cel my mother’s phone con­nec­tion, it has been 14 months since she lived there and i have been pay­ing line rental. silly me.

still no hot water, mech­anic came today and went away again. new parts tomor­row he says.…… we shall see.

got an urge today to change the din­ing room into a bed­room and vice versa, men­tioned it to him­self. he said no.….should not have told him.

too tired for this.….…..

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he brought his own doggy bag did upstairs’ dog tonight .…vis­it­ing brother had a ques­tion for him -upstairs so down he comes with dog lead­ing the way bring­ing a car­rier bag with it. straight into the kit­chen went the dog in search ot tidbits.

bed­room smelled of wet dog and farts and pep­p­er­oni, the new win­dows open beau­ti­fully easily.

have at last phoned Scot­tish gas to come and fix the boiler. get­ting fed up with cold showers, they don’t encour­age you to hang about in them . so tomor­row it will be fixed, hopefully.

have done noth­ing else all day due to no sleep last night and feel­ing like a zom­bie today.

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Why are tea­spoons not mag­netic. it is slightly mag­netic but not enough to be fished out of the over­flow in my kit­chen sink. that is what he,young Aiden (2) was up to while ‘help­ing’ with the wash­ing up. it has been down there for 3 weeks , i have tried a pair of spen­cer wells for­ceps, a grab­ber thingie that old people use to lift up dropped things, an assort­ment of slender imple­ments and a mag­net stuck to the end of a screw­driver. the tea­spoon may well be there till the kit­chen falls to pieces, that Bel­fast sink was a mis­take, looks nice but is awk­ward to clean.

basil very tired, was cheered up by a visit from old friend today but then got cross because old friend was talk­ing about basil’s ex wife and basil has been real­iz­ing a few things lately about things that were done by ex-wife all those years ago. so he is now very tired again.

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I didn’t want to go into the attic anyway.…..considering we have only half a house. and the lower half at that, we have an awful amount of attic space, it is over what was the wash house /coal bunker bit of the house which has only one story.

any­way he was in need of dis­trac­tion again so i got the lad­der down, then he came into the kit­chen which was great as he rarely man­ages to stay up for very long . we rearrange some things on the shelves, he with his artistic eye telling me where to put things but he quickly tires and it is get­ting cold so i say i will put the attic lad­der up for­get­ting there was a pic­ture in the way. he lad­der, seizes up and won’t go up or down . i wrestle and prod at it and noth­ing hap­pens , i swear at it and cry , still noth­ing happens.,

then Nic­ola phones from her new house. so we gos­sip and she asks if there is a free­cycle group in her area as she has things to get rid of and her com­puter is still not set up. , so i find a group of only 5 people in Bris­tol but a nice big group of 203 in chip­pen­ham. .….….….…any­way. he gets hungry so i dig up some food. and attack the attic again.

this time i get another lad­der and poke at things some more , basil comes along to help. his 14 stone won’t shift it. so he goes back to bed.

this time i climb on to the stuck lad­der and it begins to move and then lowers me slowly like a pan­to­mime fairy to the floor.landing sud­denly with an un-fairy like bump.

so i closed it up and had a glass of cider. and am now slightly pie eyed as i rarely drink

hic

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upside down and back­wards, thats the way to watch films.…ok freda, the films not me or Basil to divert him­self from the pains in his legs we fin­ished off the cine films , Abi­gail at 3 months old, first day at school etc., then because I, des­pite huge IQ, am unable to work out how to rewind and tired of hold­ing a reel on a pen­cil held between my toes and rewind­ing by hand. I decided to run the films backwards.……much more inter­est­ing that way though one keeps wor­ry­ing why the ice cream stays in the cone.

Those apples and two oth­ers are still hanging in there des­pite it being 17^th Novem­ber and gales blowing.

gave some por­cel­ain dolls today to Pau­line (another free­sharer. free­cycle changed it ‘s name , ) she gave me an espresso machine some weeks ago. I had bought them on eBay , actu­ally it was three wee clowns i had bought but the seller had man­aged to lose them before post­ing so i said send me any­thing i don’t mind so he sent two large dolls , way too frilly for me so it was nice to give them to Pau­line. as her hus­band had asked for some on freeshare.

i love the odd post­ings on that site. it is the mix­ture of things people have to get rid of .….….…..did i men­tion Marisa’s 800 ancient med­ical books.

the BBC want to inter­view Mar­isa about whatever it is she does.

she has got a needle stick injury tonight from Cameron’s insulin needle.….i know she is my daugh­ter because she instantly tested her blood sugar with the blood, i do that every time i cut myself.

Basil is say­ing nice things to me.…i am smiling.

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