Fiona's Quiet Life

yes­ter­day i felt too ill to blog or indeed do anything,them upstairs left a bowl of homemade spa­ghetti bolognaise on my door­step which i ate with great rel­ish. this is the fifth dose of the com­mon cold i have had since Basil died, i never had as many before.

col­lec­ted Gor­don at Glas­gow Cent­ral sta­tion at 7.15 am he flew from Aal­borg to Lon­don and came up on last nights sleeper train.

we went to see mother , she now is breath­ing fast but shal­lowly, her eyes are half open but she doesn’t seem to see any­thing then we walked to the shops as he wanted a news­pa­per and i had run out of milk.

col­lec­ted his daugh­ter Laura from queen street sta­tion and went back to sit with mother, no change in her for bet­ter or worse.

the work­men have fin­ished my en suite bath­room so i can have my bed­room back thank heav­ens as i was going to have to sleep on the floor otherwise.….there is no door on it yet as the ward­robe man is going to put match­ing doors on it and build the ward­robes either side of it.

it looks great though.

them we took Laura to the sta­tion there was thun­der and light­ning but no rain., we dropped her at the sta­tion and were on the way to get a carry out curry when she phoned Gordon’s mobile and said there were no trains as there had been a land­slide on to the track, she walked to the bus sta­tion but i said i would drive her to Edin­burgh which was a good thing as all the buses were full and there was a huge queue.….…..so we went to Edin­burgh and dropped her in Han­over street where her boy­friend was wait­ing and we went for a pizza, i was very hungry by then , it tasted great.

not feel­ing too bad but ooh my head aches.

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every home should keep a plumber under the floor­boards .

work going on apace but they have broken their drill. i wish it was fin­ished , i am not in the mood for all this dis­rup­tion, they had to get under my floor by going under the hall­way of the upstairs flat and they have not put the floor­boards back prop­erly so now i have to con­front them with it and also watch them to make sure they do the ones in the corner of my room prop­erly or i will leap out of bed and fall through the floor.

phoned brother Gor­don in Den­mark tonight as i have a feel­ing that ancient par­ent is not going to last much longer, her deteri­or­a­tion is now marked. so he is look­ing up flights on the Internet.

babies have def­in­itely given me the com­mon cold.

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super hero Mr incred­ible get­ting help put­ting on his shoes.

the babies have gone leav­ing me with the usual dose of the com­mon cold, they are amaz­ing car­ri­ers of germs are children.

work has begun on my en suite bath­room it seems huge but the bed­room is still big enough thank goodness.tonight i shall sleep in the spare room now vacated by vis­it­ors , it will be like being on hol­i­day , spend­ing the night in a dif­fer­ent room.

so i sat sown with my glass of chilled Pinot Grigot Rose.thinking piece at last, and the phone rang , they are wor­ried about my mother again, she is asleep most of the time now , and they think she has got worse again, i had kept the babies away as i didn’t want them to give her any of their germs, i hope i am not car­ry­ing any com­mon cold germs because i had to go and see what she looked like.

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this is what hap­pens when very young inex­per­i­enced drivers find a nice long ‚wide straight road,i was already on my feet dial­ling 999 before the impact as there was no way he could not hit some­thing, and that was just from the sound of his engine, i was being vis­ited a brother in law who was test­ing to see if he could get online with his laptop using my wire­less connection.….…he said he had never seen any­body move so fast .…i was out of the door just as the car turned over.….….the boy ‚i think OK, there was blood ooz­ing from under his turban, another neigh­bour man­aged to get the door open injur­ing his arm in the pro­cess the young driver is a Sikh,maybe the extra pad­ding of a turban has saved him from head injury.i hope so.

oth­er­wise a peace­ful day as the babies etc are off to my ex husband’s mother’s 90^th birth­day party, but piece will be shattered soon as they are on their way back.

i have been clear­ing things out of the way as work is sup­posed to start on Monday installing en suite in my bedroom.

off to watch Dr. Who now.….…..if i get a chance.

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girl-on-top.jpgI have been back in the land of the kilt for a week and am expect­ing the smal­lest grand­sons and gtheir par­ents tonight so there has been much? mak­ing of beds and removal of sharp objects and nuts.

It was a good trip down south,a few days in Chip­pen­ham with the littlest ones,visited a but­ter­fly farm, one attached itself to Nic­ola and didnt want to let go.

?then to Lon­don for Jonathan’s 18^th. we went to see ‘Wicked’ it was so bad i enjoyed it, to come out of a musical singing songs from a dif­fer­ent musical must mean some­thing. Judith lost the house keys so ian had to break into the house when we got back,fortunately there were lad­ders about as the win­dows were being painted. Party was a great suc­cess .…. the? BBQ ordered on the inter­net hadnt arrived so ian had to go and buy one, it was huge and in many many pieces, when i arrived? it was spread out on the ter­race? and Abby was on the phone to the shop say­ing it had no legs.….…..i found the legs and the girls and i ‚in our party finery and in the blaz­ing sun assembled it all,apart from 3 screws,

Basil’s ex wife? came and told us how to do it even though?

?a. she was wrong.

?b. she hadnt read the instruc­tions and

c. she didnt offer to help, thank god.

we man­aged it in plenty of time and it with the help of ian pro­duced some very tasty food.

the ori­ginal one arrived 3 days later.

went into the oxo tower bras­serie? for lunch on monday and then went on the lon­don eye.

revi­sion was done for exams in the tent the day after the party’ and we went to Chan­nings, the girls school to see Judith’s art work, i was very impressed.

wed­nes­day up to the lake dis­trict to join them upstairs? and get fit for the trek, got fit­ted out with boots and walk­ing clothes , girl-on-top.jpgwent? on a couple of five hour walks some of them vir­tical.? one gentle one was called ’ cats bells’ a cor­rup­tion of? a word for field of wild cats.

i informed him upstairs that i hated him a few times when ever i could catch my breath.

went to the cinema in Keswick to see pir­ates of the car­ri­bean 3 it was like being trans­por­ted into the 1960’s .

came home in time for garden party at ancient parent’s home but she had a col­lapse half an hour before it? so we sat in her room , she asleep and me singing along to the live band , they were play­ing such things as coun­try and west­ern and elvis.

ah well must see if the aero­plane is? on time.

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