Fiona's Quiet Life

We were sup­posed to be sort­ing things out in the gar­age ready for Tues­day, but hav­ing decided to offer things on free share we had to empty my spare fire­wood out of my spare com­post­ing bins, i offered them and 15 minutes later people were ask­ing for them, and Cameron had fun scar­ing the fam­ily col­lect­ing them by turn­ing one into a dalek with a sink plunger.

then of course we had to use some of the fire wood and toast a marsh­mal­low or two.….……his blood sugar went up to 21.4 i might be in trouble with his mother.….…..then we had to look at old photographs.….….then we had to watch Britain’s got talent.then it was bed time so gar­age still full of junk.

this morn­ing we went to take pho­tos of a nearby block of flats being demol­ished appar­ently brick by brick.
ended up in east kil­bride pho­to­graph­ing street lights.

now meet­ing up with Brother , nephew,niece, and their part­ners in Blonde in Edin­burgh tonight.….…..seems a good choice as we are all blonde.….…wasn’t there a film like that.…a scary one

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I have not been idle.….….well not all of the time.
and any­way the blisters on the palms of my hands are sore, great excuse for not weed­ing the garden.
brother is here from Den­mark help­ing Lind­say dec­or­ate his flat, so i drove over to B0’ness near Gran­ge­mouth to visit them, the Sat Nav denied all know­ledge of street he lives in , which is a pity because i knew i had been there before and expec­ted it to be in the list of pre­vi­ous places visited.….….wish i could remove some of them there are way too many .….…..any­way, address wasn’t in it so had to txt Gor­don for the name of street, ruin­ing sur­prise visit.then drove all round the place look­ing for the street, didn’t take long , bo’ness is small, lovely view of the firth of Forth from his win­dow.
they went off to buy more paint and i went to visit an old friend who has just had her 95^th birthday.……she told me i was a awful lassie and that i hadn’t improved, which pleased me greatly.
des­per­ate for a cup of tea vis­ited drew, who pro­duced pho­to­graphs from 30 years ago.….….if i had real­ised what i looked like i would have had more fun.….…then it was time to go back and pick up Gor­don and Lind­say and col­lect Laura from the ski slope so we could go out for a meal.…..Lindsay was feel­ing head achy, so it was just he three of us. drove almost through the arch of a spec­tac­u­lar double rain­bow, it seemed so close the we could touch it.
now try­ing to clear out the gar­age because build­ing work starts on Tues­day and that involves tak­ing down hideous old leaky gar­age, which is full of rust­ing tools. tried yes­ter­day but gave up in des­pair, will give it a go today.

i know noth­ing is worth much but it seems waste­ful to see it all go in a skip.Nicola sug­ges­ted i should open the door and tell free­cyclers to come and take any­thing they want. might just do that.

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a joint BBQ was held today between upstairs and downstairs„it was a good day, i made salads a butcher delivered saus­ages ‚steak bur­gers sal­mon and chicken, i made salads, wine and beer was chilled and a good time was had by all. discovered there were three artists among the guests and though they didn’t know each other they all knew people the other knew, so con­ver­sa­tion flowed.…and they all admired the art­work on my walls so i was happy, not that it would have bothered me if they didn’t like it , it pleases me to look at it so to me it is good.

Gave mar­isa a gad­get for cre­at­ing a spark for light­ing fires with out matches, she was very happy.

and him upstairs’s friend Alan spent the morn­ing up a tree cut­ting it down because it has been slowly fall­ing over for the past few months, hav­ing split down the trunk.

my ankle is hot and swollen so i think i will go to bed, it has been a long day even though i spent it in a wheel­chair being waited on and pushed around by grandsons.

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A truly magical day, first the women’s 10K came run­ning past, the first one was here 4 minutes after the start. thou­sands of them came, all shapes, sizes and ages. the Marie curie nurses that came to watch Basil some nights when i was in des­per­ate need of sleep, stopped to give me a hug, then went run­ning on their way to raise money so that they can provide more much need help to the exhausted.
then by quarter to 11 they were all gone and the mop up bus was passed.
so thought i , i can join the rest of the intrepid pho­to­graph­ers in anstruther. so i quickly made up some rolls for lunch and set off along the M8,across the forth Road bridge and down the coast road, there were some very heavy showers of rain and i thought myself daft to be doing it and i was con­vinced that i would arrive just as the boat chugged out of har­bour but no ‚per­fect timing.….….…..getting on board with a broken ankle and crutches was another mat­ter , but noth­ing stops me when determ­ined.
the weather was lovely, the birds were many, i stayed near the wee har­bour on the isle of may and let the birds come to me.….by this time i had blisters on the palms of my hands from the crutches.….….then 50 minute boat trip back to anstruther , where most of our party queued at the fam­ous fish and chip shop, but four of us went to a place called water­front and had a good old Scot­tish high tea. it was superb.
two hours drive home arriv­ing at 10 p.m.….….…..i am very tired but it was good

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still have noth­ing to say as noth­ing is happening.….….….….things are sup­posed to be hap­pen­ing but they aren’t.

i was hop­ing that my new gar­age and room would be at least star­ted by now but not a bit of it. the old leaky gar­age is still there with things gently rust­ing in it and immin­ent vis­it­ing fam­ily who will yet again be sleep­ing on the floor.

OK rant over.

tomor­row i am imprisoned in my house as the women’s 10k race runs right past my house, a great enter­tain­ment it is,i shall sit in my wheel­chair and hand out water.

but

I was hop­ing to go on the Queens Park cam­era club out­ing to the Isle of May , 22 of us are con­ven­ing on a boat at Anstruther tomor­row and going to shoot puffins.……with cam­eras. the to have tea in Anstruther’s award win­ning fish and chip shop.

my road is closed till 2 p.m.

i might try to park my car in a nearby street tonight, i shall study the race map and see how to get across town if i can escape this area.

that pic­ture at the head of this moan was taken by Cameron with his Nin­tendo ds of my face as seen on his com­puter screen when we were hav­ing a Skype ses­sion. he then , play­ing with the effects, gave me two heads.

21^st Cen­tury is great

the three year old Nathan in chip­pen­ham knows how to set up a video call via skype , no comment.

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