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Jun 24 2009

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QPCC wander">QPCC wander

club members

club mem­bers

What beau­ti­ful weather we are having.….…which was a good thing as the cam­era club had arranged another wander, this time in Pol­lock park, so 17 or so of us con­vened in the car park then all broke into small groups and wandered all over the place .….…this time we all ended up in 1901.…that is a pub/restaurant not an era.

build­ing work going well the found­a­tion is in and the walls are going up.….…i am happy.

mean­while mat­tresses all over the place as influx of grand­sons and their par­ents tomorrow.

watering-hole

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Jun 22 2009

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walk­ing again

Had a dose of the mel­an­cho­lia at the week­end, so i did what i usu­ally do, i went out and vig­or­ously chopped bits off the shrub­bery in the garden.….……well they have been grow­ing with the enthu­si­asm of a small boy con­fron­ted by a pond full of slimy things. now they are all look­ing as if there is a human being in charge, and i was wheel­ing bar­row loads of top­soil about so it is a good thing that this morn­ings visit to the new Vic­toria infirm­ary had the con­sult­ant telling me i could throw away the crutches and go back to quad bik­ing and salsa dancing.

so i am now cheer­ful again and have a blister on the sole of my foot because of walk­ing about Glas­gow on way to meet Sheena at piper’s tryst for lunch.

peeved though because they seem to have axed the bus stops near here. was going to use my free pass but there it was ‘gone’.

this new soda stream of mine is driv­ing me to drink, when out i usu­ally drink soda water and lime cor­dial, but now that i lit­er­ally have it on tap i feel silly pay­ing for it when out to lunch so today i had a wine spritzer.……it was lovely.

they are at last dig­ging the found­a­tions for my gar­age and room. mean­while the mat­tresses are back on the floor for influx of grand­sons etc on Thursday.

this time the online order­ing of food was made inter­est­ing by the deliv­ery of six packs of bacon.

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Jun 17 2009

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Cameron’s pro­ject revealed and some­thing i have learned

cameron-editing
At last it can be revealed.
the pro­ject Cameron and i have been work­ing on these last two weekends.…with many breaks for sodastream.….He has put together an album beau­ti­fully dec­or­ated of pho­to­graphs of his mother from day one to year 41.….…..yes I am the mother of a 41 year old.…eek!!
his grand­father hunted out dozens and i hunted out dozens. i scanned them all. enhanced the old faded ones, sharpened up the fuzzy ones, enlarged the small ones and prin­ted them all, he placed them in an album with lots of small flowers etc. and i made a DVD with music as well, just because i can.

Me editing

Me edit­ing

Oh and the thing i have learned.…. you can’t dig holes to plant trees with a broken foot.

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Jun 12 2009

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4life’">Gov­ern­ment response to peti­tion ‘change4life’

Gov­ern­ment response to peti­tion ‘change4life’Friday, 12 June, 2009 12:21 PM
From: “10 Down­ing Street” Add sender to Con­tact­sTo: “e-petition sig­nat­or­ies” You signed a peti­tion ask­ing the Prime Min­is­ter to “Ensure the Change4life
cam­paign spe­cifies ONLY Type2 Dia­betes CAN be brought on by life­style &
Type1 can­not as it is an autoim­mune disease.”

The Prime Minister’s Office has respon­ded to that peti­tion and you can view
it here:

http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page19586

Prime Minister’s Office

Peti­tion information — http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/change4life/

If you would like to opt out of receiv­ing fur­ther mail on this or any other
peti­tions you signed, please email optout@petitions.pm.gov.uk

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Jun 09 2009

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walls up and down

the engin­eer has declared my garden wall unsafe, the people on the other side have over the last 100 years been pil­ing soil up against it and it has no where for th water to drain through, so down it cam this week , delay­ing the build­ing works but all sorts of other things have been under way. i made use of them and their dig­gers to give the garden a good going over and have all sorts of new plants to go in and fruit trees to espalier against newly fixed wall. i appealed for very old bricks on free­share and instantly was offered 500 clean old bricks. .…. also asked for a bit of gut­ter­ing to invert and make a tun­nel for toads, a small new wall crosses the toads migrat­ory path so him upstairs sug­ges­ted a tun­nel, and a tun­nel they shall have.

Cameron and i were work­ing on a pro­ject over the week­end, more of which another time, then he helped me move trees about the garden.

today i have stopped using the crutches hav­ing decided they were mak­ing me look like a little old lady, so far so good, it is a little tender but OK.wallmoving-trees

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