Fiona's Quiet Life

I have been try­ing to pack for a strange trip.

a. a few days spent in the com­pany of the stick­y­ness that is a three year old and a one year old.

b. a trip to a West end of Lon­don show and an 18^th birth­day party and a lon­don hotel.

c. a few days clam­ber­ing around the damp hills that are the Lake Dis­trict around Keswick, in an attempt by my neigh­bours to get me fit for the great grand canyon trek.…..i feel there might be a slight dif­fer­ence between the lake dis­trict and Arizona.

i have got him upstairs to check my tyre pres­sure .….too low.….… and i have attached my sat nav, and packed a map book and i shall set off when i feel in the mood, the traffic will be heavy tomor­row because of the bank hol­i­day fin­ish­ing but there should be fewer heavy lor­ries. so we shall see how i feel.

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I am distraught.….…a couple of years after we were mar­ried he phoned a shop he knew i was in and said “if you go round to San remo jew­ellers there is a ring wait­ing for you”.….……we hadn’t had an engage­ment ring and he wanted me to have one. so i went and col­lec­ted it. very romantic it was.

i have lost it.

i took it off just after he died and laid it on my bed­side table as i was not feel­ing like wear­ing rings and i remem­ber then next day won­der­ing where it was but thought it was under a book or some­thing. well i have searched all day . i have emp­tied all the draw­ers and boxes and bags every­where, even the attic. it must have got knocked into the waste paper bas­ket or gone up the vacuum cleaner of some­thing. how could i be so care­less of it.

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this web page is about my fund-raising trip in october.……

www.justgiving.com/fionaseltzer

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Hot Dogs.….….….….no dogs were hurt in the mak­ing of that pho­to­graph they were hanging around hop­ing for leftovers from last nights BBQ, it had got a bit colder so we had put some logs on top of the char­coal to make a nice warm fire. had an effi­cient day today.this morn­ing went to Ikea to get a bath­room cab­inet for Nic­ola and to return some door handles that i had bought when i thought i might build my own ward­robes. and man­aged to be there at lunch­time, clever me. then i phoned and arranged annual travel insur­ance so i can take off into the wide blue yon­der whenever i feel like it. phoned the Scot­tish power people and put the account in my name and gave them the read­ings because the web­site had refused to believe my fig­ures, Basil felt cold all the time so our power bill was very high and now it should be much less..i hope. put all the vari­ous house insur­ances in my name. let the TV licence people know that i am not yet 75 so am not entitled to the free licence he had. updated the air miles account .it had been 11 years since i had done that and there are enough air miles for a nice wee trip some­where. chased up the health insur­ance who were being slow about my health insur­ance. defros­ted the freezer and threw out lots of old frozen food that has been in there too long. oh what an excit­ing life i lead.

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Basil would have loved reunit­ing with her she is great fun, , the lady in the pho­to­graph, she ( Lena now 77 ) is the one i found on the Inter­net, she had given him a book on mod­ern Amer­ican humour for his 20^th birth­day and he hadn’t spoken to her for 60 years till i found her and she and Basil talked on the phone a few times and caught up on the 60 years.….…..yesterday she phoned to say she was fly­ing up to Glas­gow today from Lon­don to see her 90 year old sis­ter and could i meet her so i did, totally for­get­ting to find out where . but magic­ally i found where she was, i did look sky­wards and say “you got me into this ‚you find her” and there was the old age home right in front of me.spooky.

then i col­lec­ted niece Laura and boy friend from queen street sta­tion and we had lunch them vis­ited my mother she was look­ing bet­ter but didn’t make much sense.

so we went to visit Mar­isa and the boys, her father was there as well so it was a good reunion for Laura and him as well as he hadn’t seen her for 3 years.

then i get home and them upstairs said bar-b-q tonight ? so we did.

they now have 2 dogs as they got a new one from the res­cue place yesterday.

i was so tired this morn­ing that i didn’t want to get up.….….….….…

i am even more tired now

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