Fiona's Quiet Life

I find i quite like hav­ing pho­to­graphs that i have taken on dis­play for the pub­lic to com­ment on.….……perhaps because i haven’t heard any neg­at­ive things about them yet.

Nic­ola has just phoned to let me know she has sur­vived her white water rafting.…i had blocked it from my mind as a mother has no wish to dwell upon her child ( how ever grown up ) speed­ing down a rocky river in a small boat.

Mar­isa was going through sim­ilar last night when left her house.….her older boy was going uptown by train with a friend to see the bat­man movie.

And Nicola’s older boy starts school on Friday.….….….….…life goes on

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Not feel­ing good today, prob­ably because it would have been our wed­ding anniversary, went to the cemetery today and left a few stones that i had col­lec­ted on my travels around the world. they are all dif­fer­ent col­ours and look very pretty, heaven knows what any­body pok­ing around there in a few thou­sand years will think to find a col­lec­tion of stones that are not local to Scotland.

play­ing with the camera

photo is just me play­ing with the camera

they are show­ing the pro­gram that Mar­isa was an extra in at ten minutes past mid­night so i have set the com­puter to record it and also the DVD player, hope they haven’t cut her scene.

pro­gram is called ’ stacked’ on Chanel 4

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Flushed with suc­cess after the first salsa les­son of this year we had a ses­sion at home.….….…him upstairs is going to Cuba soon and Kate hasnt salsa-ed so he cooked a curry i made poppadams.….…..cousin Ros and friend Hammy brought dessert. we used my din­ing room and then rolled back the rug and danced in the lounge.……an excel­lent night.

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It may not be the olympics but the photo is my brother gorden hav­ing swum the Lim­f­jorden in Aalborg.

While basil was ill i had to get a team of garden­ers in to keep the wil­der­ness at bay because every time i went out there and got covered in mud he would fall out of bed or fall try­ing to get to the bath­room. so i would have to come in and get him off the floor without cov­er­ing him in mud too, then i got too exhausted to do it any­way. Out of lazi­ness i kept them on but it is £130 per month and that is a lot for a per­son on a pen­sion so i have taken back con­trol of the wil­der­ness, but they still are sup­posed to keep the grass short and the hedge cut, well the hedge is 10ft high and the lawn is on a slope and i get chest pains just think­ing about doing them. it is amaz­ing how many weeds there are for a garden that cost me £130 per month, they dug up my plants and left the weeds as far as i can see, any­way i love gardening.

been to the cinema yet again, with abi­gail and the girls this time, we saw ‘the ‘Mummy’ lots of Chinese ter­ra­cotta war­ri­ors and skel­et­ons fight­ing. i found it quite a laugh, not sure if it was meant to be funny.

i am miss­ing the Olympics, i watched it every morn­ing while hav­ing breakfast.

went out yes­ter­day and took pho­to­graphs of the 330 mil­lion year old fossil trees in Vic­toria Park , i have lived here for many years and thought it was about time i saw them.

tonight the salsa les­sons start again, i can’t remem­ber a thing about how to do it. tomor­row we are hav­ing din­ner here with cousin ros and friends to teach Kate how to salsa. Kate is going to Cuba with him upstairs next month, watch this space, is there a bud­ding romance? liv­ing here is a bet­ter enter­tain­ment than read­ing glossy magazines.

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taken at 9 p.m. Glas­gow university

Went to see the Tracy Emin exhib­i­tion in Edinburgh.….……definitly not to my taste.….…..she has tal­ent it is a pity she is so ‘up’ herself.

saw the new bat­man film enjoyed it more than the tracy emin.
also saw a film about an mossad agent who wants to be a hairdresser, it was quite funny in parts.

Abi­gail and Jonathan went to edin­burgh by train last sunday. she asked to make sure that the car park at the under­ground sta­tion would be open when she got back and was prom­ised it would be. she phoned me from the train because Jonathan who is severely aut­istic and had been very upset by a loud dog at the edin­burgh sta­tion and was too agit­ated to go on the under­ground, so i col­lec­ted them at queen st sta­tion, and drove them to the shields road car park, it was 7 P.M. the car park was locked , it was a good thing i hung about to make sure she was able to get out. she wor­ried about the car all night in case it was van­dal­ised ‚it wasn’t.….…but it was an upset­ting end to her day out.….……we ate lot if ice cream and home made rasp­berry sauce to recover from it .…the car park people appo­lo­gised the next day.
tonight some mem­bers of the cam­era club got per­mis­sion to wander about glas­gow uni­ver­sity tak­ing pho­to­graphs so we did ‚start­ing and end­ing our jaunt with cof­fee and cakes in a bean­scene (cof­fee shop) there was a group of sev­eral people of all ages knit­ting things ‚very lively place.

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