Fiona's Quiet Life

I have Neil Dia­mond on a con­tinual loop on tele­vi­sion it is the film of a radio two pro­gramme, remem­ber the ’ good old days’ when you could only listen to the radio. i took a photo or 52 of him singing.

but i have tick­ets for his visit to Hamp­den and i am all excited. i fell for him when i was 13 and he was an old man of at least 20.

so yes­ter­day i was gen­er­ally mak­ing a mess by chan­ging the bed and empty­ing cup­boards in search of an errant char­ger when i noticed a woman peer­ing through the rhododendrons.…or is it rhodo­dendra any­way, odd beha­viour i thought so i stared back.……she came up the drive and said she was look­ing at the win­dows because she and her brother and sis­ter were writ­ing a book about their time liv­ing here as chil­dren and couldnt remem­ber if they were arched or square topped, and so i said ” you are a Boyle and came here a couple of years ago” yes she said. so in she came and told me all about the ori­ginal uses for the rooms.…..i am at the moment sit­ting in the maids room.……so i am look­ing out the pho­tos i took of the wall art before the wall­pa­per went back up, she said they did it at a party many years ago , a little wine had been taken and the pho­tos of their bus trip here .…..so next time there is an upstairs/downstairs party she and her sib­lings are invited.
neil is now sin­ing ‘home before dark’ for the 6^th time which reminds me ,
last night the cam­era club decided on a jaunt to Bells bridge at night to pho­to­graph the Clydes bridges all lit up but a t 10:30 p.m. it was still day­light so we gave up and went to the bar at the crown plaza and pho­to­graphed each other.

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so much hap­pens in my quiet life that this blog has been neg­lected and i have been taken to task by a reader or two, so here i am.….…..i was going to be doing it earlier but i was dis­trac­ted by the per­son who was com­plain­ing about my not writ­ing
i have to think back on my week now and i have for­got­ten what has been going on.
yes­ter­day was the 10 k women’s .….…..i saw one man in drag.….….….race so yet again there were thou­sands of women run­ning down my street, it was a hot day so Judy next door star­ted to hand out bottles then cups of water and i helped her never had so many people say ’ bless you ’ to me. , most of the run­ners were wear­ing pink T shirts so the view from the top of the street looked like a sea of pink blancmange.

then i took over to Mar­isa a huge para­sol to go with her new patio table and a fridge that runs off the car bat­tery that i had for basils insulin she can use it for camer­ons insulin on long trips, i was col­lect­ing seed pota­tos from a free­cycler as i had left it too late to buy some and was reduced to mak­ing my friends search for sprout­ing tat­ties in the back of their fridges and cup­boards.
i took cameron with me then we went round his local streets pho­to­graph­ing street lamps he has quite a col­lec­tion of pho­tos it is amaz­ing the dif­fer­ences there are between them all, there is a web­site about them he tells me.

before all that him upstairs took off my huge heavy storm doors so that i could get the porch replastered because it was all crumbly and ugly , it is now nice and smooth so i shall be attack­ing it with a paint brush. and while we were at it i got him to remove the old broken cup­board round the fuse­box so that is my next task fit­ting a nice new one.

and i have sold 8 books on ebay
and 6 books on amazon

i cant remem­ber if i men­tioned my trip to falkirk to deliver the travel cot that i had sold on ebay,.….….…when i saw the address i offered to deliver as it was very near where i used to live and i could visit my old friend in her nurs­ing home as well. she used to have a green­house and kept me sup­plied with toma­tos for many years so i took her a tomato plant covered in tiny sweet toma­tos but they wouldn’t let me take it in in case it has a dis­ease.….….…??? beats me !!
sat­urday night i was at a party at my niece’s house in the same road as this one they have lived in the house for 24 years and are mov­ing out soon it was good to be able to walk to it though Roslyn drove me the short way home.
i am tired now due to salsa tonight.

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Entry for 14 May 2008
I have just real­ised why the streets were so empty today .….….….……all the men are in Manchester, My elder daugh­ter has just phoned from high up in the stands of Ibrox where she ‚her mother in law and her older son are watch­ing huge screens. i am col­lect­ing them later.…..it may take a while to get near the place .

mean­while i had a ses­sion af Reiki this morning.….….….…it was like someone tak­ing an ice cream scoop and gou­ging out the pain from my chest. don’t even feel like writ­ing about it yet.

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it was either sit at home obsess­ivly watch­ing for people to bid on things i was selling on ebay or join in the fun, so sat­urday morn­ing found me inside queens park cam­era club munch­ing on a bacon butty.…..well it was mid day and you can’t do a chal­lenge on an empty tummy.

so we split into five teams of four people and off we set in search of 16 things 12 of which we had to get pho­tos of as amus­ing as pos­sible i.e. a rep­tile, the Vic­toria puma, cath­cart circle, the white cart, park life, sport­ing activ­ity, place of wor­ship, water­ing hole, stained glass win­dow, eat­ing ice cream, etc etc.….….….….…the trick was not to win as the win­ning team had to set next years chal­lenge, my excuse for not win­ning ) then we had to pro­duce 12 pic­tures for instant judging by 3 pm and while the judges laboured over the entries.….choosing there own as the winners.….we all had after­noon tea yum!

it shows how long it is since i did any ebaying,.….…..where have all the post offices gone, i nipped out to post some­thing and my two nearest ones had gone and the next nearest is awfull and it cost to park near it. how­ever post office online and paypal both allow you to pay and print off pre­paid labels online.….……i just hope my weigh­ing scales are accur­ate. two people ignored my col­lect from home only bit for large items and now expect me to post them. but the per­son to whom Mar­isa gave her green­house a couple of weeks ago have bought my old sat­nav and are going to col­lect so that saves the paypal fees and postage.

and i have planted 4 more potatos.……the slugs ate all the brus­sel sprout plants, i am now waging war on slugs.

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there are still two ‘upstairs’ dogs des­pite the look of intent on this one’s face.

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