Fiona's Quiet Life

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/news/article5007783.ece

the above link leads to an art­icle in the times newspaper.….….….…..

i was at the cam­era club on Thursday, and after the inter­est­ing talk by the cur­ator of the Glas­gow museum of mod­ern art, while we were hav­ing our tea and bis­cuits, one of the mem­bers said .….…..did you read the art­icle in the times it was spooky” all about a man going to Cuba and not get­ting laid. the mem­ber of the cam­era club had been read­ing my blog.:-)

heard some great , and nice clean , jokes for trick or treat­ers tonight.….….we call them ‘guis­ers’ in Scot­land.….… for­got­ten the jokes now but they made me laugh out loud. was in Man­dors the won­der­ful fab­ric shop in town today and it was full of people buy­ing fab­ric to make dis­guises for tonight, they said their shop in Edin­burgh was quiet, so not fun for the edin­bug­gers then.

sauchiehall street was busy today in the winter sun. i had lunch with old school friend Sheena in the pipers tryst hotel..…attached to the bag­pipe school.….……the meal sound strange but was really really tasty.….…..it was a scotch pan­cake. with a circle of crisp black pud­ding on it and some smoked had­dock on top and it was sit­ting in the usual had­dock milk sauce our gran­nies used to make but thicker. yum yum

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Yes­ter­day would have been basil’s birth­day so i vis­ited his grave, had a fas­cin­at­ing con­ver­sa­tion about the per­ils of on-line dat­ing with the Gard­ner who was rak­ing the paths between the graves.….…..slightly sur­real but inter­est­ing con­ver­sa­tion, glad i am not look­ing for a partner.

had lunch at Roslyn’s salon and she cut my fringe as i was begin­ning to resemble a high­land cow.

bought updated copy of fam­ily tree maker and have loaded all 5000 rel­at­ives both past and present by gedcom.….…what ever that is.….well i know what it is but don’t ask me to tell you, cos i am def­in­itely not a good teacher.

that was yesterday.

today i bought winter boots.

and took upstairs dogs to the park as he was unable to.….…..how much poo can one dog contain.….….…..and how much mud can they roll in.….….…the answer is .…LOTS

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Well I don’t know.…it’s just not Cricket.

i was talk­ing to some­body about Cricket yesterday.…..this doesn’t often hap­pen as my brother talked noth­ing but cricket and ate noth­ing but Heinz baked beans for most of my form­at­ive years ( hate beans too, even the smell of them).……don’t hate brother though, fond of him .…any way. as i say i was talk­ing about cricket yes­ter­day and was told about ’ sledging’ i was shocked. cricket is a game of gentle men played slowly with lots of hol­low palmed hand clap­ping when ever any­thing happens.

i looked it up on google, took a while as i was look­ing up surf­ing instead of sledging.….….well i tend to tune out the details when cricket comes into conversation.….….found a nice blog about it.….…The Cor­ridor (a cricket blog).….……he tells all. the car­toon on top of my blog is his or at least from his site.

p.s. Great Aunt Euphemia banned the word Cricket when we stayed with her.

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wear­ing my one show tee shirt to the salsa

that tee shirt i have in that photo was one i got from the BBC One Show sup­port­ing John Ser­geant on strictly come dan­cing, team Ser­geant it what it says on the front.was going to put the pic on the one show gal­lery but the up-loader is not work­ing on their site.

it was free post­ing on eBay this week­end if you put things on a 99p so i have put all sorts of old Cd’s and books of mine and a ward­robe for him upstairs.….….…..his is doing well, he may become addicted to selling on eBay.took ages to do it all though what with the pho­to­graph­ing res­iz­ing the pho­tos and typ­ing descrip­tions etc espe­cially as was hav­ing a more dys­lexic than usual week. .……the virus that knocked me for six is just about gone thank heav­ens, i was begin­ning to think i would never b e fit again.

tomor­row per­haps i will go and plant the seed of some good sense in the mind of a young friend of mine in the fond hope that it will even­tu­ally germinate.….….….as him upstairs said , it wont ger­min­ate if you don’t plant it.

on fifth apple pie now.….….took one a s a gift to Roslyn’s for din­ner last night.….…we had the first two courses, then went to salsa classes then went back for the pie and cof­fee, great way to spend an evening.

just been con­tac­ted by some­body i haven’t seen for nearly 50 years , really pleased to hear from her.

tired now

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