Fiona's Quiet Life

this was not our boat for cruis­ing down the Nile.….….…i am back.….…it was great.….…..i love the Egyp­tian people.

more tomor­row

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well i have loaded two Neil Dia­mond Cd’s and two Billy Joel Cd’s and three audio books onto my ipod touch and it has Inter­net access so per­haps i will blog from up the Nile but as i can,t remem­ber my pass­word that seems unlikely.

we are still all excited.

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6 Eddie Sto­bart lor­ries today.…..

i am in Lon­don, what a beau­ti­ful day it was for a drive, all warm and golden.

was here by 4.30 p.m.

Abi­gail and I are in a state of excitement

we are going to Egypt, just the two of us.

excited

very excited.

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it took 24 hours to get there

but we did it and it was well worth it, i laughed out loud in sev­eral places and hav­ing had one of those days where everything went not quite right it was good to laugh.

last night we …him upstairs and me.….….…booked a taxi to go uptown and see the Coen broth­ers latest film, we were going to eat at Piazza Italia in John st. then up to Cine World to see the film.….…the taxi was very late but we went any­way think­ing we would have just one course for dinner

but

the meal and atmo­sphere was so good that we just sat and enjoyed it slowly giv­ing up on the film.….….

now remem­ber­ing the effect on him of order­ing the wrong col­our wine with their meal i had a prob­lem , i fan­cied the stroganof but have been hav­ing a prob­lem with some red wines caus­ing my skin to go blotchy he was hav­ing shell fish , we settled on a rose and very nice it was too.

we then dis­cussed the effects of the equator on the way water goes down the plug­hole, being aware that it goes round in one dir­ec­tion here in Scot­land and the oppos­ite way round in Australia.…..then we dis­cussed a ques­tion that had arisen on brai­n­iac i.e. if you are trav­el­ling at the speed of light and switch on your head­lights what hap­pens to that light.….….…i couldn’t sleep after that, well it might have been the large espresso to blame for that.

tonight .….after the frus­trat­ing day.….……we drove uptown, were unable to find a park­ing space so used a newly opened car park and saw the film col­lec­ted the car and got home .……only £1.50 for the car park as opposed to last nights £10 taxi fares.….….…the day redeemed its self.

i have a heck of a lot to do tomorrow

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here’s lookin at you kid

If my IQ is even half of what Mensa say it is why did it take me nearly 40 years to work out that if you store your vases upside down spiders wont get trapped in them.….….…And on my drive to Chip­pen­ham from Scot­land i spent the last 100 miles pon­der­ing the rear view mirror.….…why is it that at night you tilt it to stop dazzle and you can clearly see the road behind …all three lanes of motor­way but in the morn­ing and day­light all you can see it the back seat.i have been pon­der­ing this on and off for many years, per­haps i will ask it on yahoo answers.

Nicola’s birthday.…we had chocol­ate cake.

the drive home was lovely.….i set the sat nav to shortest route not the fast­est and it took me through lots of lovely Wilt­shire and Gloucester­shire vil­lages, beau­ti­ful misty golden Novem­ber day, red, yel­low and green leaves on the trees. and just as i had had enough of windy coun­try roads i came upon the M5 and went straight up coun­try . the jour­ney took no longer than if i had gone to the motor­way and cut out quite a bit of travelling.

by the way con­grat­u­la­tions to America.

p.s. 7 Eddie Sto­bart lorries

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