Fiona's Quiet Life

and i don’t even like cook­ing.
the build­ers have worked hard and cleared all the tons of stuff and have repaired all rot­ted wood­work, put in damp proof­ing, thick insu­la­tion and sev­eral inches of con­crete, i now can’t get to my bedroom,lounge, din­ing room or front door till morning,it’s like being on hol­i­day.
and my old mosaic tiles have found a new home , i offered them on Glas­gow free­share and there is someone will­ing to chip off the old cement so that she can mend bits of her floor.
Ren­tokil came out and gave me £250 because of the rot­ted wood.….…nothing for the cost of remov­ing all the floor­ing or repla­cing the tiles. i may can­cel policy.….….though i didn’t expect any­thing as i was sure they would say it was the wrong kind of rot. so i am happy to get any­thing to help with the cost of it all.

it is so dif­fi­cult choos­ing floor coverings.

went to niece’s sur­prise party on Thursday.…she had no idea ‚she is now the same age as me.

i still love my pet­rol lawn mower.

i may remove my Scot­tish flag stick­ers from my car, every­body seems to hate us now. I don’t usu­ally say any­thing polit­ical but i am in agree­ment with send­ing a dying man home.….…..just because he might be an evil man.….and i am not con­vinced that it was him .….….. two wrongs don’t make a right and where are our ’ chris­tian ’ val­ues if we don’t show compassion.….and wasn’t our god sup­posed to have said “ven­geance is mine”

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well where do i begin with this reputedly quiet life.….….…..there are build­ers bur­row­ing under my bed­room floor , i am on my bed hav­ing retreated to the only tidy room in the house. the beau­ti­ful 100 year old mosaic tiled floor is being removed .….…i am sal­va­ging as many as possible.….….because the beams under­neath are rot­ted away and the floor is sit­ting on sand. i was won­der­ing why the hall was get­ting so uneven.
i am sad to see it go as it was beau­ti­ful but there were a lot of dam­aged bits , any­way now i get to choose some nice new tiles.

last week Cameron and i went all over fife and cent­ral region tak­ing pho­to­graphs and pic­nick­ing in the rain.

also the builder work­ing on my exten­sion asked me to pho­to­graph his show houses down in Kil­mar­nock for the advert­ising which i did but the weather was bad so i shall go back if ever the sun comes out again.

Abi­gail and JJ came on Monday and we hired a film on bt vis­ion, never done that before, will do it again.
but the win­dows are in on the new bit and internal walls being done today.
AND my head­ache has gone, this one las­ted from Sunday till Thursday, i am sure it is some­thing i eat but don’t know what.
now i have to go choose tiles, bath­room things and wardrobes.

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mem­bers of my fam­ily have been ask­ing why no blog­gings for awhile, they even had to resort to the tele­phone to see if i was still extant,
i have been too busy for a quiet life, i know that given my way i would sit on my sofa all day play­ing games on my ipod.……this is not a waste of time , this is exer­cising my brain.….….but i know it is con­sidered odd to hide in the house all day so i have been out and about cam­era in hand tak­ing pho­tos of any­thing that moves or doesn’t move.
also i have land­scaped my garden.…ankle allowed it.….and with the money i saved by doing it all myself i have bought a tele­photo lens , which hope­fully will arrive tomor­row.
going to sky watch tonight in hopes of see­ing met­eor shower.
also dis­trib­ut­ing lots of books among the char­ity shops.…still have hun­dreds more but i am determ­ined to get them tidy and to stop hoard­ing the ones i wont read again.
work has stopped on gar­age and room due to both swine flu and rain.…the swine flu swept through the place mak­ing the win­dows and the rain has held up the brick­lay­ers. but tomor­row hope­fully all will start again.

and mustn’t for­get the won­der­ful wed­ding next door, it seemed to go on for a month, but the last bit of it was last Sat­urday night at the Glas­gow Hilton, him upstairs , and them across the road all went and had a great time.

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this ‘quiet’ life is get­ting silly.….……this week­end it was the final act of the Sikh wed­ding, we danced till 1 a.m. at the Hilton hotel, this time i wasn’t the only pale per­son and there was a great mix of people includ­ing him upstairs, and them across the road.…..dancing with him across the road was inter­rup­ted by a tiny boy who was fas­cin­ated by the kilt.….even though some Sikhs were wear­ing one.
Judy has given me enough curry to feed an army.

then today i was down at Glas­gow green where the second day of the fest­ival was on and i got to see stunt horse rid­ing, a high wire motor­bike act , a man up a very high tower sev­eral live bands includ­ing the bay city rollers.…remember them.…

so many things i can’t remem­ber them all and received sev­eral free gifts.
it cost me £2 to get in and £5 for a baked potato and large cof­fee, excel­lent value for 6 hour entertainment.….…and the sun shone.

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