Fiona's Quiet Life

drove up yes­ter­day, a good jour­ney, bought a Marks and Spen­cer salad and a smoothie in a motor­way shop and a cap­puccino cof­fee from a vend­ing machine and ate it out­side in the sun some­where up the M6.

?wash­ing is done, spoken to every­body related to me, and have been giv­ing a second coat of paint to the kit­chen door before it gets hung.….……it took longer to put the mask­ing tape on the 15 panes of glass than it did to paint it, i had put the under­coat on the night before driv­ing down south and had to res­ist doing the second coat the morn­ing i left.now i had bet­ter go and buy some food. the old door was hor­rid, it looks ok in this photo but it is a very insub­stan­tial thing with old fash­ioned bath­room win­dow glass in it, the one i have bought in B&Q almost matches some of the other doors in the house.

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went back to Cov­ent Garden to the mar­ket this time. we .…..Abby, Esther and?I .…..went by under­ground train to Leicester square and? walked the rest of the way. stop­ping for lunch on the way. bought some lovely things in the mar­ket? was saddened by? a pair of? enamel cuff-links with the name Basil on them as i had never seen any­thing with his name on and now it was too late, i nearly bought them any­way, had a lovely chat with the lady who was doing the enamel­ing? though.

we ordered a Chinese meal to be delivered ‚30 minutes they said? but after an hour it hadn’t turned up so we phoned , then again half an our later, then we gave up and made a won­der­ful omlet? , the Chinese stuff finally arrived after 2 hours so we sent it away.

?on Sunday we drove to Westcliff-on-sea to cel­eb­rate? Ian’s mums 88^th birth­day? and had a typ­ical Sunday lunch at the West­cliff hotel with live music in the background.it was lovely to see the sea.

that night the girls hadn’t seen inde­pend­ence day so Abby went out to hire it but as i was only ?3 to buy she bought it and we had a lovely girls night in watch­ing it and eat­ing french fries and Greek salad..

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from one extreme to the other.….…. .from two small boys to two teen­age girls, i am in Lon­don com­ing via the Swin­don out­let cen­ter where i col­lec­ted a nice haul of car­rier bags full. .….well that was Christopher’s idea when he heard we were going to the Royal Bal­let? at Cov­ent Garden to see sleep­ing beauty on Thursday night he asked if i had some­thing nice and floaty to wear .…a great excuse to go shopping

the bal­let was beau­ti­ful, so were the smoked sal­mon sand­wiches and cham­pagne we had in the inter­val as well, that was because? the traffic was so bad that we arrived with minutes to spare and had only time for? one of our sand­wiches before it star­ted so they wrapped them in cling film for us and put our name on the cham­pagne bottle.

today we have been doing girl things like hair straight­en­ing etc.….….…..so unlike small boys.…except when they squabble.

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I got a sun­burned face today.….in Pewsham south of Eng­land in April, wow. i took the wee ones to Pewsham park where they spent an hour climb­ing and?swinging and run­ning about.

it was a lovely day they cooper­ated with each other all day and no tears or tantrums.….…..i am one happy , tired grandma.?

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one for­gets? just how won­der­ful that time of day is when the chil­dren have gone to sleep.….….….even though they are good wee boys, the usual bits of stroppy­ness aside, the con­stant high energy level is exhaust­ing, but oh how lovely it was when they were sud­denly asleep. they are just like the baby foxes that mock fight on my lawn in the spring, they roll about the floor seem­ingly beat­ing? each other to a pulp, screech­ing and gig­gling ?but neither gets hurt unless he lands on a sharp for­got­ten toy.?

there is a lovely ter­race being built in the back yard made of won­der­ful col­oured nat­ural stone in this photo the guy lay­ing it has just hosed it down so all the col­ours show.

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