Fiona's Quiet Life

still a bit low but not as bad as last night.

went deliv­er­ing gifts to people today and had lunch with older grand­sons, Mar­isa has got a sud­den large Christ­mas din­ner to cook as her father in law has had a stroke and is in hos­pital so her mother in law is not up to it. just shows you that life can be very unex­pec­ted at times. which reminds me i must get the spare beds made up.

going to a small din­ner party in upstairs flat tonight.

found a Christ­mas present under the tree for my niece today, i remem­ber post­ing her one an hav­ing to hunt for what i had inten­ded to get her , same with one of the grand­sons there were two under the tree for him, must exer­cise my memory before i lose it altogether.

Trek News –The Fin­an­cial Res­ult
Net of expenses, we col­lect­ively raised more than UK?80,000 /US$160,000 in pure profit for the HOPE char­ity. This will make a huge dif­fer­ence to the kids at HOPE. .

today is the winter solstice.….….….…the days start to get longer tomorrow.

an lastly some jokes that will only be under­stood by those with a broad Scot­tish accent.….……translations available

While being inter­viewed for a job as a bus driver, a guy is asked: “What
would you do if you had a rowdy pas­sen­ger?“
“I’d put him off at the next stop,” he says.
“Good. And what would you do if you couldn’t get the fare?“
“I’d take the first two weeks in August,” he replies.

A teen­age girl phones her dad at mid­night and says: “Can you come and
get me? I’ve missed the last bus and it’s pour­ing with rain.“
“Okay,” says her dad. “Where are you ringing from?“
And the girl says: “From the top of my head right down to my knickers.”

A Glas­gow woman goes to the dent­ist and settles down in the chair.
“Comfy?” asks the dent­ist.
“Govan,” she replies.

What did the Sia­mese twins from Glas­gow call their auto­bi­o­graphy? Oor
Wil­lie.

Did you hear about the lonely pris­oner? He was in his cell.

A guy walks into an antiques shop and says: “How much for the set of
antlers?“
“Two hun­dred quid,” says the bloke behind the counter.
“That’s affa dear,” says the guy.

Did you hear about the fella who liked eat­ing bricks and cement? He’s
awa’ noo.

After announ­cing he’s get­ting mar­ried, a boy tells his pal he’ll be
wear­ing the kilt.
“And what’s the tartan?” asks his mate.
“Oh, she’ll be wear­ing a white dress,” he replies.

Ten cows in a field. Which one is closest to Iraq? Coo eight.

Three wee job­bies sit­ting on the pave­ment. Which one’s a Mus­ket­eer? The
dark tan yin.

A Scots­man in Lon­don is hav­ing trouble phoning his sis­ter from a
tele­phone box so he calls the oper­ator who asks in a plummy voice:
is there money in the box?“
“Naw, it’s just me,” he replies.

While get­ting ready to go out, a wee wifie says to her hus­band:
“Shug, do you think I’m get­ting a wee bit pigeon ches­ted?“
And he says: “Aye, but that’s why I love you like a doo.”

What was the name of the first Scot­tish cow­boy? Hawkeye The Noo.

What do you call a pigeon that goes to Aviemore for its hol­i­days? A
skean dhu.

How many Span­ish guys does it take to change a light­bulb? Just Juan.

A man takes a pair of shoes back to the shop and com­plains that there is
a lace miss­ing.
“No,” argues the assist­ant, “look at the label — it says Taiwan.“

What’s the dif­fer­ence between The Rolling Stones and an Aber­deen sheep
farmer? The Rolling Stones say: “Hey you, get off of my cloud.“
And an Aber­deen sheep farmer says: “Hey McLeod, get off of ma ewe.“

What do you call an ille­git­im­ate Scot­tish insect? A wee fly b*****d.

Did you hear about the BBC Scot­land series that fea­tures the queue for
the toi­lets at Waver­ley Sta­tion? It’s called The Aw’ Needin’ Line.

What about the Scots­man who lost his testicles in a motor­cycle acci­dent?
The sur­geon re-attached them with Bostik.

Why was the Chinese res­taur­ant so bad? Because the chef was Low Ping.

Two neg­at­ives make a pos­it­ive but only in Scot­land do two pos­it­ives make neg­at­ive — “Aye right.“

A Glas­gow man — steam­ing and skint — is walk­ing down Argyle Street when
he spots a guy tinker­ing with the engine of his car. “What’s up, Jimmy?“
he asks. “Pis­ton broke,” he replies. “Aye, same as masel…“

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went deliv­er­ing gifts tonight then late night food shop­ping .……Marks and sen­cer seem to have their fest­ivals con­fused , they were selling hot crossed buns.

got very depressed .….……not about the buns .….….…and came home

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oh the excit­ing life i lead.….….….…..tonight was the Queen’s park cam­era club Christ­mas party.….….……my team won the quiz. and i won a flat­bed scan­ner in the raffle.

http://www.popularfront.com/snowdays/?i have been mak­ing snow­flakes? on this site, type in fiona blair­folk to see mine.…not fjona she is another blair­folk? person

and this after­noon i had cof­fee and pecan pie with a cousin in ’ the house for an ar

t lover’ cof­fee was so good it woke me up prop­erly for the first time in weeks and i went shop­ping for basic foods, a thing i had been put­ting off unable to face the jolly shop­pers buy­ing so much food.

him upstairs has strung blue lights out side the house very pretty they are.

the iwoot com­pany have prom­ised me they have dis­patched my par­cel, they were out of stock of the alarm clock that rings and runs away and had been wait­ing for it to come back into stock again. so per­haps it will come tomorrow.….….i told them i was host­age in the house , unwill­ing to leave it in case i missed the deliv­ery. did get a lovely hamper full of deli­cious things from Abby in Lon­don yes­ter­day , it was bet­ter than get­ting a Christ­mas stocking.

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http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1542181332

have a go at this link the elves in this on are me and my daugh­ter and two of my grandsons.

this is what i do instead of doing use­ful things.

had a great day today deliv­er­ing gifts to Nicola’s in– laws and some of her friends . and buy­ing a little food in M&S but not the big food shop.….….…my peace­ful Christ­mas has been hijacked by no less than 4 house guests from Sunday onward, but i should have quiet for most of Christ­mas day.…i hope.

and my the in laws had been trim­ming some trees and had lots of logs clut­ter­ing their garden and were won­der­ing what to do with them , they are now await­ing my nice fireplace.

was going to go skat­ing at George square with him upstairs tonight as a reward to ourselves for fin­ish­ing the ward­robes 9 I have a blister on the palm of my hand from screw­driver) but he was too tired as one of his col­leagues if off work so i had nice quiet un slip­pery night.….….…..haven’t been ice skat­ing for 42 years, that is why i did some shop­ping just in case i broke a leg.

rest of week busy with din­ners and parties etc.….….….….what quiet life?

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It has been an odd mix­ture these last three days.??Saturday ?night found me help­ing him upstairs with his ward­robes , the? boxes con­tain­ing them were delivered some time ago and he demol­ished his old one? but had not got round to? get­ting the new one in so? we set about it on Fri­day even­ing, got one bit up per­fectly but got stuck on the corner cup­board so? off we went to Ikea to pho­to­graph the way they had done it and? it was not­ing like the? draw­ings in the instruc­tion? leaf­let. by which time we were hungry and ikea’s res­taur­ant was closed? so we went to xscape and had a Chinese buf­fet? sit­ting at a win­dow over­look­ing the indoor ?ski slope ( real snow).? went back put the corner one together then gave up and watched a video of ’ The Great Labow­ski’ excel­lent film. his dogs fought over toys and got in the way

He got his friend Allan to help him yes­ter­day? as i? was hav­ing lunch in the peoples palace? winter garden with? Clair and Chris, scrummy baked potato, won­der­ful daft? museum is the peoples palace excel­lent for chil­dren as they do not frown on? touch­ing things.

glad Allan was doing the work? as they were stuck when i got back a 4 p.m. due to the house being a wee bit squinty with age, but they fixed it and? him upstairs cooked some? sup­per and i brought the wine. there are no doors on his ward­robes yet .…that may be tonight’s job.

i have been so busy mourn­ing my Basil that i hadn’t got round to mourn­ing my mother, then sud­denly yes­ter­day? i got deeply upset and had a good cry.

today i braved the post office queues and the minus? 1 tem­per­at­ure to post off the last of the presents, so feel­ing vir­tu­ous. now all i need is the after­math of this cold to get bet­ter? and all will be well.

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