Fiona's Quiet Life

today I painted the gar­age floor for the third time in three days, it now looks good enough to eat off, if fact i might not put the car in there ‚just use it as a photo gallery.

last week i informed the build­ers that i was about to have a nervous breakdown.….…well they have been here for approx 18 weeks and i am a per­son who likes to be alone, so they have sud­denly got a move on. .….though the rain was not their fault, nor was the win­dow man­u­fac­tur­ers hav­ing swine flu and the plumber hurt­ing his back. but now we should be in the final clear up…hence my ‘tak­ing over’ my new gar­age, and build­ing my ward­robes in the bed­room and mak­ing up the bed.
they have at last star­ted to replace the stone gate post knocked down by one of the deliv­ery lorries.…..they are excel­lent build­ers though and are doing a superb job.

feel­ing bet­ter though at long last after that virus, though i have developed a very husky voice, and i have only ever smoked one cigar­ette. yuk yuk yuk !!

tiger cub whith his mother

was in Chippenham ,

tug of war

.…small boys lively as ever.….picked some sloes, am mak­ing sloe gin but it was a bit early , they should be picked in Octo­ber just after a frost, so i will get some more next visit.

what a bor­ing blog , time i got out and about again

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drink has been taken.….….…i think it was a con­spir­acy between him upstairs and Basil’s cousin Ros­a­lyn to get me out and about again after this vicious virus that had me feel­ing washed out for three weeks’ a son in law had a dia­gnosis of swine flu and i had been there an with the same symp­toms so per­haps it was that any way. tonight we went to 1901 , our local pub,where they were hav­ing a Cuban night and it was superb , the food was great as they have a res­taur­ant attached and there was a demo of salsa so i got to learn all the bits i had for­got­ten and missed due to ankle break.
any­way i am without voice due to a.the virus and b . the try­ing to make my ‘bon mots’heard above the music.

the build­ers are still around after approx 18 weeks, yes­ter­day i informed them i was hav­ing a nervous break­down so they sud­denly got a move on.….it is not their fault though as swine flu held up the win­dows and rain held up the patio and all the extras that i kept com­ing up with held them up fur­ther. yes­ter­day they star­ted to put up the gate post they knocked over all those weeks ago,photos will appear when i am sober.

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well i don’t know what it was but it laid me low for ages, might have been vis­it­ing cemetery on what would have been our wed­ding anniversary that left me low enough to be caught by a bug , but what ever it was i am just get­ting over it now, .

I am down in chip­pen­ham again boy sit­ting, drove down yes­ter­day tak­ing pho­tos all day start­ing at nine minutes and nine seconds after nine a.m. so the the photo would be at 09 09 09 09÷09÷09 .…him upstairs can just be seen at eh middle upstairs win­dow check­ing time. then I took more pho­tos all way down M6, M5 and M4 till i took a final one at 9 — 9 p.m.….well that was the plan but was too busy gos­sip­ing with Nic­ola that it was 20 minutes past nine when i finally remembered to take photo.….….it is dark so much earlier down here.

so when i left Glas­gow the house was swarm­ing with build­ers and when i arrived here the front garden had been dug up for land­scap­ing, like mother like daugh­ter i thought.
my build­ers were held up by the fact that it was the wet­test August for 60 years so the brick­lay­ers couldn’t brick lay and the garden couldn’t be fin­ished off. then of course everything stopped while hall­way was repaired.….….while on that sub­ject , hats off to Cosmo ceram­ics of Glas­gow, i had gone in ( while feel­ing ill) and got sample tiles all of which looked wrong when i looked at them in situ, but as i was by then feel­ing really rot­ten i did not return them in the 7 days allowed it was in fact over two weeks later but they accep­ted them back no prob­lem.
the builder laughed at the light i had chosen , so i dragged him along to the light­ing place to choose bet­ter ones and where we then bought more of the same as they had ‘grown’ on him.

Nic­ola and i are feel­ing sick in the morn­ing, that usu­ally means there is a close mem­ber of the fam­ily expect­ing an ‘event’ …or per­haps we have the same bug, though how we could have the same bug 400 miles apart i don’t know. i await to hear inter­est­ing news from a female mem­ber of the fam­ily who will be in shock.

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