Fiona's Quiet Life

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I think i will enter it for next years turner prize. sleep depriva­tion causes inat­ten­tion and inat­ten­tion causes all sorts of acci­dents. Com­bin­a­tion microwave ovens are the best inven­tion since the wheel. but if one is

A. as dizzy as a kip­per or

B. not wear­ing ones glasses. or

C. sleep deprived thus inattentive. …

or indeed all of the above one can, and in fact I did press the wrong but­ton and baked my nice glass bowl with a plastic lid on it at 250 degrees.

his steri­ods have not given him a steriod high he is just as miser­able but can breath a bit bet­ter, though his blood sugar is now very scar­ily off. ah well it all makes life interesting

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One real­ises that one listens to too much radio when upon look­ing out of the win­dow ones first thought is oh dear what a hor­rid day for the ‘wed­ding’ of the two men in the Archers.

last night i got fourty five minutes sleep and another half hour this morn­ing. ..but he asked me to phone a doc­tor today, usu­ally he won’t let me in case they admit him to hos­pital. any­way a nice doc. vis­ited and we now have vari­ous medi­cines that with luck wil help, includ­ing ster­oids, that pleases me because he will get a ster­oid high and be cheer­ful for a few days. …hopefully.

and per­haps some sleep will be gran­ted me and i will stop feel­ing like a zom­bie in time to pre­pare for influx of chil­dren and grandchildren.

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been passing the time hag­gis hunt­ing. here is one on Buchanan st glas­gow. Basil been hav­ing a lot of angina these last few days and nights so things are very quiet here as i am more of a zom­bie than usual due to lack of sleep. can’t write more as it takes all my strength just to keep going.

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Unwill­ing to expose any guest’s naked­ness to the gardener i have been cov­er­ing the win­dows in time for the fest­ive des­cend­ing of the fam­ily. this involved unpar­lia­ment­ary lan­guage as i dropped the screws, basil mas­ter­minded the hanging of a couple of lowrie prints to make the room more homey and to aid the attic clear­ing as they have been up there since we moved in .

The inad­vis­ab­il­ity of a one year old, a two year old and a Christ­mas tree in the same room has struck me, must have been in this pos­i­tion before but can’t remem­ber it.

I am shirk­ing the card writ­ing. but have got a Christ­mas pud­ding to send to brother in Denmark.…..a sadly missed item in that country.

there was more unpar­lia­ment­ary lan­guage from me this morn­ing which caused the post­man to halt in his tracks on the other side of the front door, I was , at long last, put­ting the broad­band wire along the skirt­ing board and up round the door jambs as it has been trail­ing along the floor for months, It is done now and i feel virtuous.….….ah but still the Christ­mas cards.

had eyes tested today on the fond and cor­rect hope that they would not be busy as people had more urgent things to do. .….…“when did you last come in?” she said, “14 months ago” said I. ” 26 months ago” said she. oops.……slight adjust­ment needed. nice new bendy glasses. and nice healthy fun­dii, no sign of ancient parent’s glaucoma..

he has taken to watch­ing short bursts of tele­vi­sion since i con­ver­ted the com­puter to a tele­vi­sion but he gets tired very quickly, still it is a good thing as it dis­tracts him from the pain and itch.…but i cant use it as a com­puter at the same time.

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There are days when you know it is not worth attempt­ing anything.….…this was one of those days.

i have how­ever got the remote to work by attach­ing yet another dongly bit and given him sur­round sound so now he as a speaker near each ear and can hear it which saves me hav­ing to repeat everything said in a film. .…..has an odd effect on my per­cep­tion of the films though as the sound is behind me and the film is in front.

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