Fiona's Quiet Life

I have had a lovely day, had some great com­pli­ments Con­tinue Reading »

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it was the hard­est thing i have ever had to do, and i had to do some hard things in the care of Basil includ­ing inject­ing him with insulin into his abdo­men but yes­ter­day when it came to inject­ing my 11 year old grand­son in his thigh with his insulin i found it very hard to do. we had a lovely day look­ing at show houses.….….….……i fell in love with one new house Basil would have loved it, he got rest­ive if he didn’t see the sea every so often.….…..one side of the house looked over a mar­ina full of little sail boats and the other side of the house looked over the Clyde.

there are 29 can­did­ates in our local elec­tion , because i was house­bound look­ing after Basil we applied for a postal vote and it arrived , one paper has 29 can­did­ates and the other has 9 can­did­ates and there is more ‚i will have to read it care­fully before send­ing it.….….…..Basil’s didn’t arrive , i won­der how they knew he was dead , , very effi­cient of them i wish other things were as eas­ily dealt with.….i have yet more paper­work to do, what is a bereaved dys­lexic sup­posed to do. .….……this one went upstairs at the neigh­bours invit­a­tion and had an lovely meal and lots of rose wine.i sup­plied the pudding.

my new comfy fur­niture arrived and i am at last sit­ting on a com­fort­able easy chair, a free­cycler came today and was happy with my old settee which was way too small for this big room.….so i have now man­aged not only to leave the room which i spent nearly all of seven years in but have ven­tured into a third room.

and i washed all the win­dows so i am feel­ing virtuous.

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I drove down to Chip­pen­ham .….…near Bris­tol, last Thursday to visit Nic­ola and Chris­topher and to baby sit the wee ones while they went to his boss’s third wed­ding, Chris resplen­dent in his kilt amongst all those sas­sen­achs.. it is a lovely place full of alley­ways and a mar­ket where you can buy lovely fresh olives and cheeses etc..

couldn’t make sat nav work because it is a machine and i hate instruc­tion books, i only got lost once any­way and that was half a mile from my own home and manged the other 398.4 miles no problem.

was feel­ing slightly guilty not going by train and using finite resources but i over­took two large trucks car­ry­ing rail­way car­riages so if car­riages go by road why shouldn’t i.

small chil­dren get up very early in the morning .

it was lovely play­ing with them …the pho­to­graph is Nic­ola and Aiden mak­ing daisy chains.

they whirl round and round till they fall over.

on Tues­day i drove to Lon­don to stay the night with Abby and the girls.……Ian was in Bar­ba­dos hav­ing lunch with Garry Sobers (crick­eter) and not see­ing Eng­land play cricket.….….16 and 13 year old girls whirl round and round till they fall over as well.

this was the first time i have been on any trip alone since i was 16 and there was fam­ily at the end of the trip.

lots of lovely new comfy fur­niture arrived today so now i must get it all moved round to look good and i have offered the old stuff on free­share and someone is com­ing to col­lect it tomorrow.

didn’t do much today as i ate a scone and cream etc a couple of days ago and i am sens­it­ive to wheat so i have been feel­ing a bit off today but will be fine tomor­row. did some more paper­work today , it is amaz­ing the bits of paper that keep arriv­ing need­ing dealt with and it is amaz­ing how fast the cur­rent account goes down when there is no income going into it.

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drove up from Lon­don today , lovely jour­ney aver­aged 55mpg at 70 mph so am very pleased with hybrid car, used the M6 toll road well worth the ?4 to bypass all that con­ges­tion. tired now as baby grand­sons have gen­er­ously shared their germs with me and i feel a bit off.

pho­tos and blog­gings tomorrow.

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It is becom­ing a full blown addic­tion, I have actu­ally bought Con­tinue Reading »

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