Fiona's Quiet Life

Went uptown yes­ter­day because i had bought a car­digan in John Lewis and when i went to put it on i dis­covered the secur­ity thing was still attached, i was cross because i didn’t want to schlep uptown again.…anyway uptown i schlepped and the assist­ant took off the thing and i said that i was bit peeved because apart from the waste of time it also cot me ?3 park­ing, so she gave me the three pounds so i am impressed with John Lewis.…then i bought a bathing cos­tume so they got their profit anyway…though it was half price in the sale.

while uptown i decided that if i was going to take pho­to­graphy ser­i­ously i should get a cam­era with a good lens so i got a Panasonic with a leica lens the pic above is the first one i took with it,there are all sorts of things on it to get used to, that will keep me out of mis­chief for a while.

mean­while i have the symp­toms of the com­mon cold again, i never used to catch so many , it must be some­thing to do with Christ­mas and feel­ing a bit down. how­ever dance/exercised for much longer today.

which char­ity trek for Hope in 2008 ?

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I was doing fine,felt i had got through the fest­ive sea­son quite well and think­ing that was it , and i would be OK now, dan­cing about the house i was , get­ting fit for the next challenge,been uptown ‚bought a swim­suit, then a song on a Cd i had been dan­cing to called 12 songs by Neil Dia­mond, the song was called Hell yeah , it was the last verse about did he know he would be missed .….….….that was it .…tears stream­ing down my face, if it had been in a movie it would not have looked real. .….….….. i could see dur­ing the Christ­mas time why people end it all or take an acci­dental over­dose of sleep­ing pills, some­times you won­der why wait about, but i did not feel as bad as that , i could just see why people felt like it. .….. any­way i am mostly cheer­ful so worry ye not.

Neil Dia­mond has been there all my life, provid­ing a soundtrack for it.….…?I fell for him when i was 13.…didn’t know the song i so enjoyed was really about bottled beer ( crack­ling Rosie) . i had my best moments with him singing in the back­ground, there was always a song for how i felt and now he is age­ing at the same speed as me and his music reflects it. twice he was here in Glas­gow but both times Basil was in hos­pital and there was only the hour vis­it­ing time at night and he so looked for­ward to my vis­its (i had to be the first vis­itor in or he was wor­ried )?that i wouldn’t have missed one , so i missed Neil dia­mond instead, i con­ten­ted myself with play­ing Cd’s loudly in the car on the way to the hos­pital and singing loudly, people must have thought me mad.….…Nicola tried to get tick­ets for his Lon­don visit this sum­mer but we were too late , i have signed up for his news­let­ter now so we wont miss the next tour if he man­ages another one

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As a child? i loved stormy weather and still love to lie in my bed listen­ing to the storm and feel­ing safe.…but.….….as a homeowner? one lies there think­ing,’ how far away? is that? huge tree’ and? ‘is the car out of the line of tra­ject­ory? of any fly­ing roof tiles’.….….once? Basil sent me out to move the car in the middle of the storm,it wasn’t till later i thought of the danger i had been in, two tiles were embed­ded in the lawn to the depth of 4 inches, and one den­ted the car?roof? and gouged a?bit out of the back window,.….?in the event the gale last night only??? sent one roof tile onto the ground and it missed the car by a meter.

I have been doing the dance exer­cise, well i got as far as the warm up exer­cises but? i did them twice )…small?? steps will get me there. then i slept for half an hour this after­noon as the night had been? noisy with the wheelie bins blow­ing around the garden?.

? I am told by him upstairs that you have to remove the Christ­mas dec­or­a­tions? by 12 night because the fair­ies brought in on the holly and the tree get rest­less and imp­ish after that caus­ing all sorts of trouble.

this pic is a view of him upstairs on his mobile phone on my front door­step as seen by my secur­ity camera

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have not been idle des­pite my usual indol­ence, in order to help with the sleep thing i have been get­ting up at a proper time in the morn­ing no mat­ter how tired i am and going out all over the place. and also going to bed at a reas­on­able hour.….…i am determ­ined to get it sorted…AND.….…..last night hav­ing vis­ited Ikea in search of a couple of cup­boards to fit under the new fridge an freezer when they come.…..i went and got the strictly come dan­cing DVD so i can get fit by learn­ing the salsa, jive, cha cha cha,quick step and samba plus some warm up and cool down exer­cises. have even done a bit of it today

so this morn­ing i went uptown into John Lewis and looked at fridges and freezers.…i wanted a freezer that defrosts itself, inter­est­ingly most man­u­fac­tur­ers don’t make them any more as they need more space for the fans that keep them frost free so People wont buy them it is 5cm wider than the oth­ers so i came home to meas­ure the space again just to be sure then ordered them from the john­lewis web­site. i will wait till they arrive before i fit cup­boards around them as i need to be sure of air circulation .

yes­ter­day while driv­ing beside the M77 i saw three deer graz­ing right beside the motor­way, know­ing the height that deer can jump i thought i would con­tact someone in case they had escaped from somewhere.….….….nobody seemed to care ‚so if any acci­dent is caused by cars hit­ting large anim­als at 50mph it is not for want of my try­ing to warn people.

one of the lovely bonuses of hav­ing fit­ted my sur­veil­lance cam­era over my front door is that i can hear the bird song while sit­ting inside my house.

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twelfth night and down came all the dec­or­a­tions, the house looks so dif­fer­ent without them i shall miss all the lights but it is nice and tidy again.

a friend today remarked that i was good at doing gen­eral repairs around the house, and how and why did i learn it all, they seemed to think it funny when i said that if they had ever been chased around the bidet by a randy plumber they too would have taken steps never to need a work­man in the house unless abso­lutely necessary.

excused fish feed­ing duties tonight as him upstairs is on his way back from the snowy Lake District

hungry now time for dinner.….….whatever that may be.….…i really should go food shop­ping, the last time i went out of the house was on new years eve to buy milk.……still haven’t been on a fridge and freezer hunt.

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