Fiona's Quiet Life

My face­book page knows when i am play­ing games on my ipod touch.….…..AND tells all my friends what i have been doing and my scores at Wordsworth.….….……i main­tain that i am not in fact play­ing , i am exer­cising my brain,and i do it reli­giously every morn­ing while break­fast­ing in bed and every night before going to sleep with ipod softly telling me war and peace.……53 hours.….….because i sleep bet­ter with back­ground noise.
any­way i have not been idle in the almost week since last blog.
can’t remem­ber exactly what i have been doing it but i have been doing it all day.
bought a lawn mower, who would have thought it was so dif­fi­cult to choose one but it is, even­tu­ally got a self pro­pelling , mulch­ing pet­rol one.
and i have planted sev­eral things in the garden includ­ing some pota­toes that i found sprouted in the cupboard.

i have been to the river fest­ival and gone down the Clyde on the only ocean going paddle steamer left in the world..called the Waverly. too 265 photos.

i have bought a dress for the last bit of the Sikh wed­ding made a beau­ti­ful shawl /scarf thingy with a bit of fab­ric from Man­dors, been sit­ting fringing the edges while watch­ing record­ing of torch­wood.
taken things into char­ity shops to tidy up, bought things in char­ity shops so still not tidy.
work con­tin­ues apace on gar­age and room, the roof is now on , win­dow should arrive next week held up by swine flu.….the excuse of choice at the moment.
today i have been spread­ing manure and plant­ing a fig tree. unlikely to get any figs in west of Scot­land but who knows .
my holier than thou friends main­tain they never have any left over food so don’t need a green cone, i don’t believe it, every one has a bread crust or a bit of bacon rind or veget­able peel of even a bit of mouldy cheese in this weather.my ordin­ary refuse bin now rarely has any­thing in it.
i am sure i had some­thing use­ful to say but no idea what it could have been.

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my quiet life is any­thing but quiet.……not that i can remem­ber what i have been doing with my days but i have been doing a lot of it.….….…apart from the three when i felt too ill got do any­thing but read, thank heav­ens for Quintin Jardine and his cre­ation Oz Black­stone.….
so what have i been doing…i really can’t remem eber .

I was in chip­pen­ham for a few days, then i had some physio­ther­apy , i am all twis­ted accord­ing to him .…had raging sci­at­ica ever since, per­haps because he straightened me up.

been to bits of a Sikh wed­ding, more of that to come

tired now cos Lind­say and Sarah are back from the wed­ding they were at and we have been dis­cuss­ing ven­ues for theirs,
so more another time

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people have been fret­ting because i have not been blog­ging, yes i m fine thank you
there has been so much hap­pen­ing that i have been going to bed early.…..l also have been read­ing the whole Oz Black­stone series by Quintin Jardine, work­ing my way back­wards to the first one.
anyway

that is what is hap­pen­ing at home.….….I am in chip­pen­ham doing a babysit of small boys.….…..it is like round­ing up cus­tard try­ing to get them to school in the morning,it must be a good school though as get­ting the older one to leave it at the end of the day is equally dif­fi­cult.
great fun yes­ter­day at a fete in monk­ton park[cap­tion id=“attachment_1124” align=“alignleft” width=“150” caption=“on way to nurs­ery school”][/caption].

Why is there VAT on audio books, very unfair to the blind and dyslexic.

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hav­ing a rest from all the garden work .…..it is at last raining

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