Fiona's Quiet Life

The last time i saw any­thing that looked like the photo was some years ago when? driv­ing from Dauville to Le Tou­quet, we sud­denly saw the Eif­fell Tower ahead.….….…this had to be wrong as both those places are on the north coast of france and paris is about a third of the way inland..oops!!.….….…this sort of thing happened a lot when driv­ing around europe with Basil, we would get deep into con­ver­sa­tion and miss signs, for­tu­nately as we were not on any kind of sched­ule it did not mat­ter where we ended up. life with him was quite and adventure.

any­way this ver­sion of the tower was in Las Vagas, there seemed to be egypt and italy in the same street.? the town wasn’t as taw­dry as i had expec­ted and was won­der­fully clean,.…..

.….….…tomor­row night i am attend­ing a Dinner/Ball in aid of the Hope char­ity , the one all the trekking was for, and one of the things that has been given us to auc­tion for the? char­ity is a week­end in Las Vagas , busi­ness class flights, stay­ing at the vene­tian hotel and tikets for Barry Manilow plus meet­ing him afterwards.….…..

now had it been Neil Dia­mond i might have been temp­ted to bid.

I am in Lon­don stay­ing with Abi­gail etc.? younger grand­daugh­ter and i had fun last night try­ing on our dresses.

the boiler is broken and has to be replaced.….…maybe we should all decamp to a hotel

it was minus 6 last night and all is lovely and frosty.

think i will go shop­ping now, see if there is any­thing worth buy­ing as? christ­mas presents.……Marisa has done all hers already.….….…..if there is noth­ing to be found in Lon­don? per­haps i will go to Copen­ha­gen , there are some beau­ti­ful shops there. com­ing back via Nicola’s to give wee Nathan his second birth­day present.

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here i am nine months later and at 22:45 at night deal­ing with things to do with Basil’s Income tax, why does life have to be so complicated.

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we wor­ried , Jill and I for most of the two days in the middle of our trek about how we would man­age the climb out, i can walk for miles on a flat or down­hill path but it was? nine miles of a gentle slope upwards then a mile on very steep uphill.? some of the party opted to go out on horse­back, but i can’t make the bloody things move when i sit on them, some of us? thought about char­ter­ing a helicopter.….….…not as expens­ive as you might think between 6 people.….…..but the Havas­upai tribe said it didn’t fly on Wed­nes­days. so we just decided to walk out leav­ing an hour before every­body else.and that is what we did.….….…I was still the last out of the canyon, but at exactly the time the guides ?wanted us all out so it wasn’t to bad.….…meanwhile , those who had opted for the horses got flown out by?helicopter as the horses turned up minus saddles. I am pleased to have com­pleted the whole chal­lenge though

On what would have been Basil’s birth­day i was cling­ing to a?rock-face by two sets of fin­ger­nails and the toe of one boot.….……” another fine mess you got me in ” i said. .….…he used to say i looked like Stan Laurel? some­times when i smiled at him.? I have brought back a small piece of rock from the bot­tom of the canyon to put on his gravestone.….…..i asked?some ?mem­bers of the tribe if i might take a bit of their land to? my land, they thought it a great idea.

I feel different.…I don’t know if it?is the ‘clos­ure’ of the stone set­ting or if it is the achieve­ment of the? chal­lenge? but i am def­in­itely changed.……i am still miss­ing him and talk­ing to him? but i am not so miser­able, some­how i feel he is at rest.….…it has been 9 months.

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Grand Canyon it is? not, today i decided that hav­ing got fit for the trek i should remain fit , .….…..espe­cially as there is already talk of the next chal­lenge.…… so i dragged ex-husband on a long walk in Mug­dock coun­try park , Milngavie the photo is of solar pan­els i spot­ted on top of an ancient castle.

it is get­ting cold here tonight, i think i smell snow in the air.

tired tonight as? grand­child phoned at 2:30 a.m.? I think i will get an early night in case it hap­pens again )

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Well i could have sworn on a stack of bibles that i had left the ring on my old bed­side table.….….…remember some months ago i was dis­traught at the loss of my engage­ment ring, well today i was try­ing to make my hair all eleg­ant? for the char­ity ball? next week and was also try­ing to find a neck­lace that would look nice with the ball gown, and there it was nest­ling among the junk jew­elry? so it is now on my fin­ger again and there it will remain.

the ball is in aid of the hope char­ity? , it will be nice to see the trek­kers all clean and sparkly.

didn’t find a suit­able neck­lace though. M&S had the per­fect shoes but not in my size , never mind it will all resolve itself in time .

Any­way, today’s two pho­tos are me ‚in dark blue, my stepson in law Ian Fagel­son,? in the lighter shorts ‚and i think his name is David Gold, who got a wee bit lost on the way out and had to do an extra mile and a half.….…..and he still man­aged to beat me out of there by miles .the second on is the middle one of a series of hot pools? kept in place by sand bags , the water was just like a hot bath it was lovely, i could have stayed there all day.this did not pre­pare us for the cold­ness of the rivers we had to wade across later in the trek.

went to Ikea with Mar­isa yes­ter­day?, as in order to make the out­side of my house lighter on these dark nights i had put a brighter bulb? in the light , bad idea, it melted the other bulb and the? shade and also fused half of the indoor lights, oops!?… my older two grand­sons? Peter and Cameron? sons of Mar­isa are these photos

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