Fiona's Quiet Life

well made it as far as London..very slowly due to road­works, the good thing is that the road­works make the car go so slowly that i got 58 miles to the gallon.

it is dark and wet here

stay­ing in the new hol­i­day inn express even nearer the house than the usual one i stay in at Brent cross..it was either that or shar­ing with a grand child and i need all my strength for the trek.

we are about to have a carry out Chinese meal delivered, yum yum crispy seaweed.

Grand­daugh­ter Esther has star­ted a blog this very minute http://storyofanelf.blogspot.com/

i am told it gets cold­ish in the after­noon in the canyon.layers of cloth­ing is the answer. i may have to repack

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packed and ready to go, it is all in the car .…an overnight bag for the two nights in Lon­don, a small carry on bag for the plane, a lar­ger suit­case con­tain­ing a back­pack full of trek things and a small bag with?my sleep­ing bag?etc?.,? and even my sand­wiches? for the jour­ney are in the car as it is lit­er­ally freez­ing cold out­side tonight so they are just as well there as in my fridge.

i am covered in fake tan so i don’t look too? ‘peely wally’ amongst all the toned and tanned Amer­ican law­yers. “oh van­ity thy name is woman”.……

i have given him upstairs the left over food for the dogs.

made up the? spare bed for House sit­ting Claire and her husband.

tried to pay a bill for the broken glass? which i finally go fixed? after all these months.…the door i put my head through all those months ago.……but he hadn’t made up the bill yet so i told him i was skip­ping the coun­try to avoid pay­ing it. .…..he said he would wait.

it is now nearly one o clock in the morn­ing so i sup­pose i should go to bed,? 400 miles to drive tomorrow.

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Quiet reigns.….…grandchildren off to visit Edinburgh.

photo is Abi­gail and the girls play­ing the piano in the morn­ing before the stone setting.

Yes­ter­day was an emo­tion­ally exhaust­ing day, there were about 50 people at the ser­vice and i remembered how Basil loved to count the people at things , I know he would have been pleased by the turnout for him. the ser­vice was fairly short and then most of the people came back to the house for food there was almost a party atmo­sphere by then,those that hadn’t been watch­ing the changes I had made to the house were ‚I think, favour­ably impressed. while it was a sad day it was also a good day and felt like a party for Basil espe­cially the grand­chil­dren and great-nieces were liven­ing things up.….there is a lot of food left, ?Nathan help­ing with the leftovers,I have to get it all eaten by Thursday when i drive south on the first leg of the great Grand Canyon challenge.

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couldn’t put it off any more so i have got all the food for Sunday.a lot of people will come back to the house after the con­sec­ra­tion of basil’s head­stone? so i have enough food for about 40, it? was? very dif­fi­cult? as my heart was not in it, i usu­ally love? cater­ing for large groups, it is the only time i like cooking..but it will be? lovely that all daugh­ters and sons in law and 7 grand­chil­dren? and sev­eral great-nieces? will? fill the house. i have all the beds ready, there will be bod­ies doss­ing down in all corners.

some­body said recently that it would be ’ closure’.daft thing to say , i don’t want clos­ure, he was my hus­band and i loved him and? am happy to go on think­ing about him, i am get­ting on with my life? but? have no wish to for­get about such a big part of it.

i bought pyja­mas? today to wear in my sleep­ing bag.haven’t worn pyja­mas since i was 10.

had fun today ‚? Esther .younger grand­daugh­ter is off school ill? so she and i played par­al­lel games on addict­ing games .com? we were on the phone for about an hour and a half, it was an updated ver­sion of pacman.….…think i will have another go now, its only half past midnight.…bye bye

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had an excel­lent day today, Clair came in for cof­fee and to col­lect keys as i will have left just before she arrives.

the gardener turned up with lots of logs for my fire and a jar of quince jelly made from some of the quinces i let him have.

the rest of the day went on the same pos­it­ive note and i am now watch­ing ’ Bride and Pre­ju­dice ’ a Bol­ly­wood ver­sion of pride and prejudice.it is good

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