Fiona's Quiet Life

They are tak­ing it in turns the grand­chil­dren, one or other of them has been on the phone since about 19:00, i hate to think of their par­ents phone bills it is amaz­ing what young people can find to talk about for an hour and a half at a time, one of them..the 13 year old is on at the moment singing to me .….….….

I am very lucky in my fam­ily and friends, i have been invited to Lon­don, Israel, the lake dis­trict, Edin­burgh and all points north ‚tonight and tomor­row, but i want to see this year gone and done with.….….…the third death was yes­ter­day in the per­son of a favour­ite cousin of Basil’s a really delight­ful man and eccent­ric sci­ent­ist, there are not enough people in the world like him .

half an hour of it to go, i shall have some vodka and fresh orange juice, and go to bed.….……or just the orange juice and go to George square to see all the people.

Happy new year to everybody

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Hav­ing no respons­ib­il­it­ies other than the feed­ing of the upstairs fish twice a day, I decided I should become artistic the res­ults being the above pic of Nathan aged 2.

And Aiden aged 4

And Cameron aged 11

And Peter aged 14

Him­self always told me to read the labels of any medi­cine i was tak­ing or dol­ing it out and I always made sure that if it was paracetamol I wanted that was what it said on the label and a quick scan of con­tents in case there was aspirin in it, aspirin causes me a lot of grief.……anyway. .….…..I have been sleep­ing much worse than usual and usual is pretty bad, I had come back from m visit to grand­chil­dren with a heavy dose of the com­mon cold, which left me with blocked sinuses so i took either a decon­gest­ant tab­let or a super­mar­ket cold remedy.….……CAFFEINE.….….in large doses in cold cures ‚and decon­gest­ants are pseudo ephedrine.….…..oops !!.….……sleep­ing bet­ter now.

And remem­ber­ing his say­ing it was bet­ter to throw away old food rather than risk an upset tummy ( med­ical term) and that if it was eaten it would be gone any­way , i threw out the food leftover from Christ­mas day, then had to have an omelet for my even­ing meal, i hate eggs, but It was really quite good.

Yes my Eng­lish teacher did tell me never to start a sen­tence with and or but.….…so Mr Brig­nall, sorry.

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It is not depres­sion as such but a deep over­whelm­ing sad­ness that gets a grip every so often , it is some­thing that has to be got through , these major events like birth­days and Christ­mas. , it is not all the time just a very small part of each day.and i have had some lovely times this fest­ive sea­son, i have had all sorts of inter­est­ing vis­it­ors and have vis­ited all sorts of people ( some inter­est­ing ) and have even man­aged a bit of the quiet i wanted, i don’t believe it does me any harm this sit­ting slightly wal­low­ing in memor­ies, it is still less than 11 months. i does seem a bit churl­ish i sup­pose to be irrit­ated by the amaz­ing num­ber of wid­owers and divorced men who seen to wish to take me out to lunch, but irrit­ated i am.

two thou­sand and eight is going to be great.….….….…how’s that for pos­it­ive thinking

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they arrived safely from Lon­don at 11.30p.m. the fog had been very bad mak­ing the drive miserable.…the air­ports had to can­cel lots of flights and 1000 people were stuck at gatwick.

last night ( Christ­mas eve ) we all walked to the Sherbrook Castle hotel and had a great dinner.……so glad the good chef was still there.

today was a lovely day , phone calls from excited grand­sons of all ages, and nice phone calls and text mes­sages from friends .one of the gifts i received is an hour quad bike safari in Perth (Scotland).from www.intotheblue.co.uk yippee !.

the vis­it­ors went out at about mid­day an i had my won­der­ful quiet day watch­ing rub­bish tele­vi­sion and a DVD of Helen Mir­ren being the Queen, made myself a Christ­mas din­ner of tur­key and all the trim­mings, noth­ing more oner­ous to do than feed the upstairs fish.

excel­lent day

Happy Christ­mas everyone

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wait­ing for the arrival of which ever of the Lon­don lot are stay­ing here, they texted some hours ago to tell me they were hav­ing a hor­rendous journey.

yes­ter­day turned out very nicely and cheered me up hugely.….…hope it had the same effect upon those i encountered along the way.

him upstairs cooks up a very nice curry .…or three.

clear sky’s and a nearly full moon last night ‚won­der­ful for noc­turnal wan­der­ings, almost as bright as day.

had a lovely lazy day.…..having made up spare beds and? got rooms ready.….….watched 3 films.…Santa Claus the movie.….….miracle on34th st (remake).….…..an .…..Cat­wo­man. won­der­ful mixture.….well if i am not going to get Peace tomor­row or? half of christ­mas day thought i may as well do it now, seize the moment

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