Fiona's Quiet Life

I am in Lon­don ( with new laptop) for a few days stay­ing with Abi­gail, Ian et al.….…..we are going to a char­ity din­ner ( in aid of Lang­dons a? colledge for young aut­istic people in Manchester ) , some­where in White­hall tonight, not such a posh one this time it is cock­tail dresses, not sure what a cock­tail dress is these days so i cut 10cms off the bot­tom of a? floor length dress, which has improved the look of it a great deal thank heavens..

took this photo out of my bed­room win­dow of? high hedged lon­don gardens.….…..beech hedges at least 3 meters high.

going to Brent Cross shop­ping cen­ter now for a? good old win­dow shop and who knows what might be spot­ted in Fenwick’s sale.

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Scary stuff this.….it has take an hour so far but seems to be going OK.….….my old laptop is get­ting very unre­li­able and slow an jerky , it is not sur­pris­ing as it has been used all day every day for years.….….….…oops spoke to soon trans­fer of files has not worked, so much for easy trans­fer, oh well i will just have to reload all my pass­words etc one by one the old fash­ioned way,

any­way i bought a new laptop today as you might guess by all this trans­fer­ring of files .

def­in­itely hasn’t worked

think i will do it in the morning

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www.goape.co.uk?

http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/Residents/Parks_Outdoors/Parks_gardens/pollokcountrypark.htm

Well that was lively, .……Glas­gow city coun­cil­lors should know by now that the good people of the city don’t like people inter­fer­ing with their ‘Dear Green Place’.….….….Glasgow is rightly proud of the fact that it is a city with a lot of open green space and thou­sands of trees.

The coun­cil, without ask­ing any body, con­tac­ted ’ goape ‘and asked them to come into one of our parks, there was a very lively protest meet­ing tonight hun­dreds of people turned up a and even the car park was full of people. none of us had any­thing against ‘goape’, in fact we all liked what they had to offer but they hadn’t been given much choice of location.

i hope they do come to Glas­gow i would love to have a go on their vari­ous climbs ..tak­ing my grand­chil­dren on with me , won­der­ful excuse grand­chil­dren are for doing all sorts of things that a dig­ni­fied per­son would not do.

feel­ing more pos­it­ive today hav­ing done a bit of gentle ‘kick­ing of ass’ of people who were not get­ting things done thus mak­ing me get no sleep.….….last night was the worst yet.

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“I hate things hanging over me”.Basil often said so we always paid bill early and got things done that had to be done.….….…..

.….….….….…Things are hanging over me and have been mak­ing me very depressed, the wind­ing up of? my husband’s estate and the wind­ing up of my mother’s estate and the income tax for all three of us.. it is almost a year since he died and? still it is not fin­ished with yet, i have to get this flat val­ued yet, and as i have done a lot of upgrad­ing to it this year i shall now have to find all the receipts. i am back to not sleeping.

Any­way i am refus­ing to? sink com­pletely. on Sat­urday night went by taxi uptown and saw the Coen & Coen Bros film which recently won the palm d’or.called no coun­try for old men or some­thing like that..it was excellent.

and tonight? i went with him upstairs to salsa dance les­sons in Busby, Basil’s cousin Roslyn,who ?goes every week and has been try­ing to get me to go for months, it was goo fun and i was exhausted by the end , great way to get fit.

there would?be pho­tos but i have mis­laid? the usb lead from my cam­era and the thing? in this com­puter refuses to read it when i put the SD card into it grr !!

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It has gone already whatever virus it was, helped on its way by vin­tage port , throat loz­enges and spa­ghetti car­bon­ara donated by him upstairs. It is a good thing i was feel­ing bet­ter as i had run out of milk, corn­flakes and money so had to go to a super­mar­ket, was amazed to see Easter eggs on sale in tesco.….…came home and had a nice lie down after all that shopping.

…Tomor­row my new fridge and freezer arrive so i have plenty to do in the morning.….ooh the excitement.

these are the upstairs dogs taken in soft focus with new camera

tired now

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