Fiona's Quiet Life

Set off to the other side of town this morn­ing, but one look at the motor­way and we went in the other dir­ec­tion instead and bought some milk and came home for coffee.

Took Claire into town to her new flat this after­noon, glad i didn’t park as the car in the pho­to­graph got taken away by the traffic cops.we were sup­posed to be hav­ing sup­per uptown but she had for­got­ten her choir prac­tice so we didn’t .….….i think i will go uptown any­way and see the lights and the ice rink and the Christ­mas mar­ket stalls in George Square

My par­cel hasn’t arrived from the Iwoot web­site yet, get­ting a bit worried.

spent the after­noon untangling dozens of bits of wire and dongles that belong to all the com­puter extern­als, they are now in zip­lock bags.

yep, going uptown now to see lights, or i will fall asleep in this chair, it would be nice to actu­ally sleep at night.

i have been work­ing on lots of pho­to­graphs that i had saved in an external hard drive and on cds, turn­ing them into tiff. files so that they don’t lose pixels as they do if saved in jpeg. i was amazed how old basil looked in the ones taken in his last years, he always looked as hand­some to me as when i met him, it was quite a shock and also how full of fluid he was. but apart from the last images of him that are burned in my brain from his final hours i still see him as a laugh­ing young man.….….

I was also shocked at how old i looked in pho­tos taken at the same time, i was exhausted, espe­cially dur­ing the time ( over two years) that he had Demen­tia caused by the thyro-toxic effects of one of his? pills. he didn’t sleep more than 10 minutes day or night, he had no idea who i was , he had no idea where our house was he thought we were in a ren­ted cot­tage down a long path, he saw people that were not there. he had no idea if it was day or night , he was totally con­fused, but the amaz­ing thing was that once the pills were stopped and things got back to nor­mal , he remembered the whole thing and we com­pared notes about what he had been think­ing and feel­ing. I can’t listen to the radio pro­gram ’ the Arch­ers’ just now as one char­ac­ter has demen­tia and it brings back the whole night­mare vividly.

10 Months since he died, i am doing all right most of the time.

any­way i am off the see the lights.

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Rudolph boy spot­ted on Sat­urday in Milngavie.

i have been hav­ing a lovely day today.

and i got a free vase from Ikea, then while i was col­lect­ing it i spent sev­eral pounds on lamps but that was OK as i am pleased with them , but would i have got them if i hadn’t gone to col­lect the free vase, .….…well i was look­ing for some so i sup­pose yes but not just yet. still need­ing a chair to put at the fireside in the dining-room.…there is now one going on eBay near where Nic­ola lives.….who knows i may just pop down, going soon any­way as i am needed for a day soon.

And the boiler is fixed, lovely !!!.

Grand­son Peter is 14 today…deep voice answers the phone, it would have been my moth­ers 95^th? Birth­day today .….she was delighted when her first great-grandchild was born on her birthday.

told grand­sons that Santa has lost the Cd’s with all the chil­dren in Britain’s names.….……they didn’t believe me , only the gov­ern­ment was that stu­pid was what they thought.

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Today i spot­ted my first Santa, he turned up at Craig­dhu primary school in a pony and trap and dis­trib­uted presents to lots of children.

Cameron was ‘man­ning’ the jew­elry and pupil made cards and candle hold­ers stall, it is fas­cin­at­ing to watch the Asber­ger mind at work he had a run­ning total of the profit in his head and as it neared a hun­dred pounds he had the exact amount cal­cu­lated that it would need to get to the hundred.needless to say he made much .more than that ..

the raffle was excel­lent, every year (i.e. primary one) had a box full of things donated by the pupils it was ?1 a ticket and well worth it . we won the box filled by primary 6, t was enorm­ous fun find­ing out all the things in it when we got home.….he was delighted as every year he had bought tick­ets and this is his last year at this school.…..he gave me a box of chocol­ates and a bottle of wine out of it, yum yum.

yes­ter­day i moun­ted three pho­to­graphs for a com­pet­i­tion .….….just the kind of job i hate , all meas­ur­ing and stick­ing , i can get very messy with glue, but i am pleased with the res­ults though, don,t expect the judges will be but i don’t care, as a mem­ber of the cam­era club they like you to enter a few pho­to­graphs per year, i spent hours look­ing through old Cd’s of pho­tos i had taken in the last few years since get­ting a digital camera…i must remem­ber to save them as tiff. files in future so that they don’t deteri­or­ate every time i open them. .…i need a fourth one but can’t find the one i was look­ing for and don’t want to put just any old pic­ture in as i will be up against real photographers.

house is still icily cold or very hot, the prob­lem is with the igni­tion so by keep­ing it very hot it doesn’t go off so then it doesn’t need to ignite but that makes it too hot so i turned off lots of radiators.….…it is easier to light a log fire and lurk in one room, it is amaz­ing how much wood it goes through, but it is a very ‘green’ option as i use old wood that nor­mally would rot and cause meth­ane and i am not using gas or elec­tri­city while it is burning.…and i boiled a kettle on it and toasted a muffin.

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