Fiona's Quiet Life

Well it was a chal­lenge thrown done so i had to uphold the hon­our of Scot­land in gen­eral and Glas­gow in par­tic­u­lar, which is how i happened to be swim­ming yes­ter­day even­ing in the north sea.….…(photo to fol­low if it came out).Fin, a 64 year old pro­fessor of pedi­at­rics said that he would swim as he was a hardy vik­ing , and any­thing Fin could do so could ‚i which is why there were five wind­blown wet people trekking through the dunes last night in blokhus, Fin and his wife Kirsten were vis­it­ing to teach us how to make sushi, it was delicious.

we have nipped back to civil­isa­tion to pick up our emails etc.

tomor­row we go to the very tip of Den­mark where two seas meet and you can see the dif­fer­ence in them.

ah well back for another swim now

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As you may have guessed , i am in Den­mark, i have been up at the very top among the sand dunes in a sum­mer­house with no Inter­net access and my mobile phone has refused to work the past few days won­der­fully peace­ful it was, but i have popped back int Aal­borg to get in touch with fam­ily who were get­ting worried.

halfway through last Tues­day i thought, if i don’t go now i never will, i had been put­ting it off and delay­ing it feel­ing just a though i wanted to sleep all the time so i thought this will only get worse unless i do some­thing about it so i packed a small bag, put the book­case that Gor­don wanted in the car and set off, ‚my sat nav refused to work but one the way south, halfway down Eng­land the sat nave sud­denly said. “You are over the speed limit” which was the firs com­mu­nic­a­tion i had had from it for weeks. then it told me the way until i went on to the new Birm­ing­ham bypass, then it sulked again.which is a pity because i decided i was very tired and would stop for the night but the hotel had no room so she booked me into another one a few miles down the road but gave me dir­ec­tions to a dif­fer­ent one ..it tool me an hour and a half and 60 miles to find one that was only 17 miles away and the room stank of cigar­ettes but was the only room left.

but the next day was super , i set off won­der­ing whether to try Har­wich but not sure if there would be a ferry i went for the Chanel tun­nel and got straight on well it would have been instantly on but they decided to sniff my car for explos­ives, so i just missed the train but it was only half an hour till the next one, then clocks for­ward an hour. and off up France, i set the sat nav for Aal­borg with no hope that it would work. but mir­acle , it instantly worked and took me all the way from Cal­ais through Bel­gium, Hol­land Ger­many up to aal­borg it wouldn’t tell me how to get to my broth­ers street but he met me in a rest area of the road and led me in., my mobile phone stopped work­ing just before we met up.and has only accep­ted text mes­sages but refuses to send them or to call people , it is bliss full though hav­ing peace from the world.

so we have? been to a medi­eval day out set in 1533 to be pre­cise it was huge fun , and we have shopped and read books while it rained and watched the sun drop into the north sea at 10pm from a long flat white sand beach.Gor­don and me watch­ing jug­glers, and acrobats in authen­tic 1533 costume.

must try to book a room near the tun­nel now for my return journey

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?15 .….…amazing.….…..one years road tax, i have just renewed it on line as it is due on 1^st Aug. and it was only ?15 for a hybrid car. that makes up a bit for the fact that the car cost me more than an ordin­ary car to start with.

i have been being effi­cient but it is a bank hol­i­day here today so tings i tried to do couldn’t be done grr.

still very sleepy. awake half the night and not wish­ing to get up in the morn­ing. going to look for a car­pet or two tomor­row as mine are all grotty .

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been sleepy all day.

them upstairs who were also feel­ing sleepy decided a BBQ would wake us all up so we had one, then as i had two bin bags full of papers that needed either shred­ding or burn­ing 13 year old Jamie , son of her upstairs burned the lot of them , i feel much bet­ter as that is another chore done.and another corner tidied. BBQ was tasty too.

if this blog stops sud­denly don’t worry it just means i have gone to Den­mark on impulse, depends if i stop feel­ing so sleepy.

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feel­ing much bet­ter today, been tidy­ing up and mak­ing faulty machines work and put­ting up things on walls that were meant to be done ages ago. and have set up the web­cam so?? JJ and i can talk dur­ing col­lege holidays.

then i thought i would find out the best way to get from here to the top of Den­mark with a glass fron­ted book­case in the back.….….……i though the best way was to go from Rosyth to Zebrugge overnight and drive the rest of the way as , while the book­case is in the back of my car i can’t hide my lug­gage, then come back my usual way , driv­ing through all the coun­tries between Den­mark and the north of France. But it seems that accord­ing to the ferry web­site a single woman on her own can’t have a bed ‚only a reclin­ing chair in which to pass the night all for ?159 one way.if that is indeed so i shall go by my usual route through the Chanel tun­nel, i have driven from the top of Den­mark to Le tou­quet in a day before now so i am sure i can do it the other way round.

mean­while i have much to do first so i shall prob­ably be going nowhere

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