Fiona's Quiet Life

well i was going to write that i have been hav­ing a great day tech­no­logy wise, but it has been ganging up on me again.
I was hav­ing trouble a couple of days ago down­load­ing an audio book to my ipod.…..i love audio books they put me to sleep at night, though some­times they keep me awake if they are inter­est­ing, i tend to get sci­ence ones in the hope of bor­ing myself to sleep.
any­way i got a free one on audible.co.uk. and couldn’t get it to work , so i defrag­men­ted my laptop hav­ing remove hun­dreds of pho­tos. and left it a couple of days and today it uploaded instantly and no prob­lem at all.

and even bet­ter , i bought new house phones.….as opposed to cell phone.. there are four hand­sets and i knew it con­tained a sim card reader, but hadn’t real­ised what a boon that is.
instead of hav­ing to enter the fifty or so num­bers i might need into each hand­set, i just made sure they were all on the sim card in my mobile. put the sim card into the main base, sat each hand­set in turn on it and hey presto , they now all con­tain names and numbers.….……him upstairs promptly used his soft phone (bt vis­ion broadband).…..just to con­fuse me as i didn’t recog­nise th num­ber.
and you can send text mes­sages with it.

all that was earlier.

i can­not get flash player to down­load, i have tried the registry fix but still it wont load, i am hop­ing turn­ing off the com­puter might work,

Smoked saus­age anyone ?

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I am hid­ing indoors from the sun , did some garden­ing this morn­ing till i fell of the garden steps, twist­ing the broken ankle, that put an end to the garden­ing,
then tried to wash the earth of the patio with the hose pipe only suc­ceed­ing in spat­ter­ing mud every where. did man­age to get a wash­ing dry on an old fash­ioned clothes horse, my whir­li­gig being down till a new place is built for it.

two very ugly and giant con­ifers were removed today , one was grow­ing up through a beau­ti­ful syca­more, it looks so much bet­ter now and i will plant a mature tree in the place of the other, hav­ing fun choos­ing what tree, i like trees to feed either me or the birds so i might go for a Stella cherry and also i am think­ing of a morello cherry espaliered on my north facing garden wall.
they must have hit it a huge whack, i didn’t hear it but the builder rang the bell and handed me the house num­ber that usu­ally is attached to the stone pil­lar at one side of the drive, it is now in three pieces on a pile of soil. they might as well wait till the end now as it makes the drive easier for the deliv­ery lor­ries.
got new house phones today so once they are charged up is shall have to spend a while load­ing in all the phone num­bers, at least the hand­sets all com­mu­nic­ate with each other so i only have to do it once. cos there are four of them.….well i can never find one when they ring.
free sharers have given me a fire­guard and a fold­ing push­chair this week.…needed fire­guard as the last one i go had a side miss­ing,
went to the won­der­ful Emrico sale yes­ter­day morn­ing, there was a huge queue and i nearly went home as my ankle was aching but was glad i stayed because i bought two out­fits for wed­dings and a dress, a skirt and three sun tops all for £58, which is about a quarter of what one wed­ding out­fit would cost.
the fun bit of all this build­ing is i get to drive all over my front lawn.…after yelling at people for years for ruin­ing the edge of it by care­less driving,

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And there it was .…gone gar­age down. rubble away ‚ground pre­pared for mak­ing of a paved area for my whirly gig as it used to be beside the now gone gar­age. these build­ers are so neat,tidy and fast and cheer­ful i am deeply impressed.

food has arrived via tesco online, one thing i have learned hav­ing this broken ankle is.….be care­ful when order­ing food online.i have ended up with one banana,one onion and one satsuma.

and another thing i have learned these last few weeks is the car locks itself just as you reach for the door handle. you gather your­self together crutch on each arm and purse hung round your neck ‚you press the key to unlock the door dangle the keys from any fin­ger not grip­ping the crutch and launch your­self at the car. only to hear it go ‘clunk’ as it auto­mat­ic­ally locks itself because you have taken all of four seconds to get to it.

upstairs dogs hav­ing a ‘friendly’ over some­thing the dig­gers unearthed

I offered my old gar­age roof on free share and there were five people want­ing it as they all had old leaky Mar­ley gar­ages with asbes­tos roofs these guys were the first to ask, one of them was build­ing him­self a gar­age and was delighted to get it, so glad it didn’t go to landfill.

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How to dig a garden, all those hated laurel and rhodo­den­dron bushes gone , the laurel is pois­on­ous and makes my skin all red and hot and the rhodo­den­dron is a weed intro­duced into Scot­land years ago , i shall replace them with some­thing indigenous.

I was so tired last night, it was as if i had done all the dig­ging myself, when in fact i sat in my bay win­dow and as the build­ers brought junk out of my gar­age i waved the crutch towards the skip or the save pile.a good laugh was had as some strange things emerged..

it took hardly any time at all to reduce the hated ugly gar­age to a heap of rubble, i feel so lib­er­ated, it was like a dank dark weight on me.
it is an odd thing but now the thick shrubs are remove from the front garden the house now looks big­ger and more eleg­ant.
and i am going to have to do some­thing use­ful in the house instead of play­ing com­puter games all day because i can’t pos­sibly waste time while being observed by large men work­ing hard from 8.a.m.

not that i am wast­ing time on this laptop, i have ordered food hav­ing run out of basics again, and i have ordered a green cone, it is an amaz­ing thing , like an ice­berg the largest part is bur­ied under­ground and you put all kit­chen waste,cooked food ‚bones everything in it and it dis­ap­pears into the soil under it and feeds the plants , even bet­ter than a com­post bin, pretty soon i shall have noth­ing put out for the bin­men, as it is my bin has hardly any­thing in it as Glas­gow col­lects , paper, metal,plastic and garden waste for recycling.

Right I am off to look busy now

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I am res­ist­ing temptation.…..there is earth mov­ing equip­ment in my front garden and i have the keys.

Scot­tish her­it­age objec­ted to my remov­ing this hideous leaky gar­age and cost me time and money defend­ing my wish to replace it with one that matches the lovely house i am lucky enough to live in.….……they hadn’t even seen it they just objec­ted on prin­ciple that change is all bad.…..seriously pissed me off.….common sense pre­vailed though

Lind­say and Sarah

had lovely time last night in com­pany of newly engaged couple my nephew Lind­say and his fiancé Sarah, my niece and my brother and his ex wife Sheena, what could have been an awk­ward even­ing went very well, i felt a bit like Switzer­land, neut­ral ground being equally fond of my brother and his ex wife.
build­ers arrive 8 A.M. i am all excited.

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