Fiona's Quiet Life

It was six months ago today

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Been to the cinema tonight with 18 year old aut­istic grand­son JJ ‚we went to see Hair­spray as he is in love with Michelle Pheiffer.….…probably spelled that wrong.…… there were some funny bits and John Tra­volta has gone up hugely in my estim­a­tion but gosh the 1960’s were on another planet i.e. preg­nant women drink­ing and smoking and segreg­a­tion of races. the last song was good though and made me want to dance. he is stay­ing tonight and has gone to bed already so i might go to bed early too as he may get up early and also last night i sat up till 2 a.m. watch­ing a film about the Mar­quis DE Sade.

spent this morn­ing rush­ing about get­ting money into my check­ing account as the en-suite sud­denly needed to be paid for.……still no doors on it though so still not paid for all of it.

yep def­in­itely an early night.

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him upstairs, his friend Allan and Jamie son of Elaine demol­ished my old ward­robe on Thursday then we had a BBQ and and had a bon­fire till half past one in the morn­ing drink­ing beer and wine. i had to empty the old ward­robe before the new one was ready so there was a mess every­where and i have spent the last two days sort­ing it all out .…..i had to as the spare bed was heaped high and Grand­son Jonathan needs it for tomor­row night as he will be stay­ing here. it took so long as i got dis­trac­ted by the hun­dreds of pho­to­graphs that were in boxes in the old ward­robe, basil had spent many happy hours going through them all before he died and i hadn’t got round to put­ting them back up in the attic.

my en-suite bath­room still has no doors and wont have any for another two weeks as they are cus­tom made and the chests of draw­ers still have not tops, it is a good thing i am not in a hurry to get it finished.

i got sad three times while away, once when my brother played an Eddie reader CD, she was Basil’s favour­ite singer , once when i got lost..Basil and i got lost a lot due to talk­ing to each other and not watch­ing where we were going, once we were going from Deau­ville to Le Tou­quet ( both on the north coast of France) and real­ised we were lost when we saw the Eif­fel tower. we never wor­ried when we were lost as it was all a great adven­ture. and the final time i was sad was because i stayed in an Ibis hotel, we always got an ibis card which gave us 10 % off and stayed in them all over Europe. so it was sad to be there all alone and not to be able to com­pare notes with him about the other ones. this one wasn’t all that good as it didn’t have the usual buf­fet for the first course of the din­ner but the break­fast was good and there was free tea and bis­cuits on arrival.

cheer­ful again now thoug

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all is chaos here as the ward­robes are being fit­ted in my bed­room and i have emp­tied the old ones as him upstairs and his friend are going to demol­ish them this after­noon, so all the floors are covered with things and clothes and papers and pho­tos, as i also have some of my moth­ers things to clear up.

so, the trip to Denmark,

it was great. i ate a lot of fish.and no curry. stood in a church that will be swal­lowed by the sea by this time next year, climbed a tower that is all that is left exposed of a church that has been bur­ied by the sand dunes, been under the city of Aal­borg where there are the remains of pre­vi­ous build­ings, walked for many kilo­metres in the dunes and on the beaches, read three books , done many sudoku, played rum­my­cub, learned how to make sushi, seen a fox run away from a hare while they were watched by a bird of pray which gave up in dis­gust and flew off.swum in the north sea three times, stood with my feet in two seas at the same time.spent an after­noon in A.D. 1533 been very temp­ted by three paint­ings, two sculp­tures and lots of beau­ti­fully designed things, i did buy three table lamps and a dish made by an artist in ceramics.i was going to buy a small ceramic horse but they didn’t take credit cards and when i even­tu­ally found my way to a visa machine it refused to give me a decent amount because of the unusual activ­ity in my account.then i got lost on the way back to the gal­lery so now i must email them and apo­lo­gise .….…i only found the gal­lery ( we had vis­ited it a few days earlier) because i was lost on the way home and took it as a sign that i was meant to have the horse. ah well i was wrong.

so i timed it to reach Cal­ais in plenty of time to buy wine,beer, cof­fee, cheese, bread and any other won­der­ful foods but i had reckoned without the shops being closed on a Sunday, i am so used to 24 hour shop­ping 7 days a week that it came as a shock to find the huge Cite de Europe shop­ping centre closed except for cheap eat­er­ies and the multi plex cinema.my cross­ing was booked for 8:50 a.m. and the shops opened at 10 am but one large super­mar­ket opened at 8:30 so i rushed in there and grabbed what i could and rushed to the tun­nel , missed my train but they didn’t mind and put me on the next one. nice way to cross the channel.

my mobile phone had run out of credit due to people send­ing me too many texts .….it costs a lot to receive mes­sages and phone calls as well as when you send one, that is chan­ging soon but hadn’t then.….……and i couldn’t top it up for some reason so i was won­der­fully cut off.

went to chip­pen­ham to visit wee boys , it took ages because the last bit of the jour­ney seemed to be affected by the floods, i was then going to go to Lon­don ‚have din­ner in the west end and bring Jonathan up to Scot­land but his doc­tors appoint­ment got delayed and as i was so late get­ting to chip­pen­ham that i stayed there overnight and came up the next day .

and here i am.

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?sun­set over the sea at 10 pm in Demark.

home safely, three days driving,got lost once in Den­mark, twice in the same bit of Ant­werp and once in Ger­many .….….so much junk mail to deal with so no blog­ging tonight.

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