Fiona's Quiet Life

I have worked so hard.….….and the whole house is in chaos apart from the spare bed­room which is ready for JJ com­ing some­time this week.

every inch of the lounge has been painted and sev­eral inches of me in the pro­cess but i had plastered on a thick layer of hand cream and let it dry before i star­ted so that all the paint washed off eas­ily as it didn’t get near my skin. they are com­ing to put down the new floor on Tues­day so i thought i would get all the dec­or­at­ing done so that any spills wouldn’t matter.……this is the one time i didn’t splash .…..any­way it is done but all the books are in heaps on the floor and i have hun­dreds of them and the pic­tures are lean­ing against walls . also a man came today and removed the old fire­place which was a cheap mod­ern hor­ror and was too dan­ger­ous to use and hope­fully a nice new marble one will go in next week, and a nice new marble one is going in the din­ing room too, it doesn’t have a fire at the moment just a hor­rid air vent in the wall.

nice vis­it­ors yes­ter­day braved my chaos and per­suaded me to join Queens Park Cam­era club, who knows i might just do that if i have time to fit it into this ‘quiet’ life.

and a cat came into the house today i don’t know who was the more startled.

my dys­lexia is bad tonight, i must be tired

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it is 03:27 a.m. and i am wide awake, thank heav­ens for BBC radio 4 i have been listen­ing to reports on what is going on at the Edin­burgh fest­ival amongst other things, it has whetted my appet­ite and i will try to fit a wee trip over there into my quiet life, i have been won­der­ing what to do on August 27^th which would have been our wed­ding anniversary, i intend to do some­thing that is not deal­ing with paper work or house paint­ing or any­thing use­ful on that day any sug­ges­tions would be wel­come. one daugh­ter has sug­ges­ted a ses­sion of raki (or how­ever it is spelled).…..someone else sug­ges­ted a trip to Dub­lin, that might be fun i could hunt for the odd ancestor while there but i have to be here the day after as JJ is stay­ing the night he will prob­ably want to go and see hair­spray again he likes to do exactly the same thing every time.

worked very hard today, now the won­der­ful dec­or­at­ive cor­nice looks grubby so i shall have to paint it tomor­row, it is a hor­rid job as the ceil­ing is very high and the cor­nice very intric­ate, ah well i will feel very vir­tu­ous when it is done.

bet­ter post this blog before bat­tery goes, it doesn’t last very long any more.

p.s. the bat­tery went just as i pos­ted it ‚phew!!

i am going to read my last Harry Pot­ter , i have been res­ist­ing it till now.

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i have been a little blue over the week­end so no blog but i got a huge amount of house­work done and am very cheer­ful now as today has been a very good day.

my fin­gers are covered in dried paint as i for­got to let a thick coat of hand cream dry on them before i started..well i didn’t mean to do all that paint­ing but i had to do the skirt­ing board before the new floor goes down and that made the rest of the wood­work look dingy so i painted till i ran out of paint…there were a lot of breaks in the work though while i chat­ted with friends and neigh­bours , i did for­get to have morn­ing cof­fee and lunch but i man­aged two after­noon teas and sev­eral pieces of chocol­ate. and a daugh­ter phoned up and sug­ges­ted i might like to join them on a trip to centre parks in France where there would be lots of things for the chil­dren to do and then a couple of days in an hotel eat­ing lots of things french.

the dec­or­ator is going to redo the room that they made such a mess of , he had employed a man without check­ing why he had left his last job.

i wondered last night how many people in Bri­tain ran to look up the work ‘mimsy’ when the advert­ised the film ‘the last mimsy’ i didn’t rush to look up the word

a. because i was too lazy

and

b. because i was pretty cer­tain it was a word made up and found only in the poem Jab­ber­wocky by Lewis Carroll.

i still have lots of paper­work to do con­cern­ing my mother but i cant find any of them as all the fur­niture from the room that they were in is scattered all over the house so that a floor can be laid and i cant find any bits of paper at all.

still can’t find the thingy to take the pho­tos out of my cam­era so no pic­ture tonight

tired now.

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for Quiet life this one is get­ting busy. this morn­ing a man came to meas­ure my floors so that i can have nice ’ new ’ antique oak wood in the lounge and din­ing room and a nice cream car­pet in my bed­room. and then went and chose a nice marble fire place as there is only a tiny bent grill in the wall where the fire place should be , he comes out to inspect my chim­ney tomorrow.

then Jan , whom i knew when we were 10 years old in North Har­row and who got in touch through friends reunited a couple of years ago, phoned and said she was up in Perth on hol­i­day and could we meet, she would come by train to Edin­burgh to feel a bit of the excite­ment that is the Edin­burgh fest­ival, i said OK as soon as i had fed the upstairs dogs and let them have a run in the garden .…..him upstairs was away for the day.….….. i would get the train through to Edin­burgh, park­ing being such sweet sor­row in Edin­burgh at the moment, any­way she missed her train and it wasn’t worth her going to Edin­burgh for such a sort time so i went up to Perth .it is a lovely drive.….…..and took her to Blair­gowrie where i was at school for a few years and we had a won­der­fully tasty meal in a bis­tro and a walk round, even vis­it­ing my old school, ?it was a beau­ti­ful even­ing, then?I took her back to Perth and got home to Glas­gow at twenty minutes past midnight.

pho­tos to fol­low when i can find the wee thingy to upload them.

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Now i remem­ber just why it is that i do all my home dec­or­at­ing myself.….the din­ing room needed pro­fes­sional work done on it as the wall where the old ward­robe s were fit­ted was a mess so i got in a team of dec­or­at­ors and the spare bed­room needed freshen­ing up so i got them to do that room as well , an easy job that usu­ally i would do myself but i was feel­ing tired and it was so easy to say just do that room too.……well as you can see from the pic­ture the guy hat painted the louvre doors to the ward­robe didn’t put a dust sheet over the clothes inside and i now have stripey winter clothes. and the wall­pa­per he put on is not prop­erly hung. so no more dec­or­at­ors for me .

tired today due to stay­ing up late last night watch­ing a film..silly me.

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