Fiona's Quiet Life

I raised mine eyes unto the hills.……and thought ‘not bloody likely’ but nev­er­the­less up i went. in yet another bid to get fit. the wind tur­bines lined up on the other side of the val­ley show just how windy it is up that high i am feel­ing dis­tinctly weather beaten.as a fleet­ing, but nasty pain flit­ted across my chest and down my left arm i thought ’ mm i shall never be able to explain to my daugh­ters just why there is a natty pair of gents under­pants on my wash­ing line.’ how­ever i sur­vived the climb so now i don’t have to . Ha Ha Ha

spent the rest of the day plant­ing cyc­la­men under my trees and hid­ing my ugly radi­at­ors behind nice fret­work things…can’t think of the name for it.

need­less to say the painter who made such a mess of my clothes and walls has not reappeared to make it all good or return my cleaned clothes.not impressed with him.

last night of the proms tomor­row, Basil and i always watched it , singing loudly along and clap­ping in all the right places„ i shall miss that, i won­der if there is going to be a live bit of it on Glas­gow green ‚i might drive down to have a look.

tired now with all the fresh air.

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It is dif­fi­cult to make a bed when 10 of the essen­tial screws are miss­ing which is why it is lying in many bits on the spare bed­room floor.….….the old spare bed had? great thick wooden legs and it took up too much room? in the small bed­room so him upstairs dis­mantled it and car­ted it off to his spare room, (los­ing two import­ant bits on the way) and i star­ted to assemble? the new bed? out of dozens of bits but there were sup­posed to be 14? x?50mm screws and there were only 4 so no more?? bed-making.

?large cup of? hot cof­fee was spilled today? caus­ing an inter­rup­tion in activ­it­ies but not for too long .

I love Glas­gow ‚i was uptown this after­noon and the street sounds and smells ? ?were wonderful.…..the pave­ment cafes , the per­fume smell emant­at­ing from Lush , the fresh cos­metic com­pany, cigars ‚baker­ies, the sounds of the busk­ers? some singing is strange? for­eign sound­ing voices, one play­ing? music by the shad­ows on an elec­tric gui­tar, one play­ing a violin , a bagpiper,??many dif­fer­ent accents of tour­ists, sirens from police cars and fire engines,

yes­ter­day i dis­covered? after hav­ing the car two years how to load 6 cds into the player.i really should read instruc­tion books when i buy things.

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It was the ’ great Scot­tish run ’ today i live at the five kilo­metre mark, three guys had dropped out with injured feet, this guy was look­ing very shivery so i got him the rug i snuggle under on cold winter evenings.….….or while watching scary films. there were two races on today , a half mara­thon and a 10k.…side streets were full of peeved drivers try­ing to get to church.

i have been work­ing very hard today mak­ing the wee flat that my mother had ready for going on the mar­ket tomor­row .my house was get­ting tidy and is now as bad as ever with her things all over the place.… for those won­der­ing how i still have a flat to sell when i sold one at the begin­ning of the year it is like this.….….….

she lived quite a dis­tance away and it was impossible for me to look after her and basil at the same time so i bought a little two room flat for her just up the road from here and she was fine there for a while until she was too unsteady to be on her own , then she went into a nurs­ing home, i haven’t got round to selling that flat because i was too busy look­ing after Basil and too tired to even think. so now i am get­ting a grip on all these wee prob­lems as it is cost­ing me a lot to main­tain it what with the insur­ance and the factors fees.….we have just had to fork out ?1000 per owner for the out­side wood­work to be painted.….…at least they have let me off coun­cil tax till i get it sold.

still got a lot of paper­work to do but i am get­ting there.

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