Fiona's Quiet Life

no treas­ure mad­ness, no farmville,no café world, no read­ing what my friends and fam­ily are up to.….….…..My Nieces shop Man­dors won the best in the west award today and i found out on facebook.…see what i mean , how will i keep up

Grand­son Cameron is here for the long week­end hol­i­day .….……he is on one of my laptops look­ing up street lights.….……it is an asper­ger obsession.….….……different from my obses­sion with treas­ure madness.

I said to my younger daughter.….….….i won­der why 3 of my grand­chil­dren have asper­gers, i don’t have any obsessions.….….….she burst out laugh­ing, i was sit­ting sur­roun­ded by three laptop com­puters play­ing games on two at once.….well i am exer­cising my brain.….… and i admit to not know­ing what people are on about most of the time and find­ing life slightly per­plex­ing and most illogical.

any­way ,

the Pope came to Glas­gow, some people found it really annoy­ing as all the roads around my house were closed and the local motor­way became a bus park for 400 buses. i enjoyed it all hugely des­pite being a ‘proddy’ (non cath­olic for those not glaswe­gian), i got out my bike and rode through the empty streets and took pho­tos of all the buses and people, heard the fam­ous Susan Boyle .….……she could be heard from quite a distance.….……cycled up and down along the length of bel­lahou­s­ton park then rode home and watched it all on telly.……Glasgow does this kind of thing so well , with little fuss.

ah well back to see if face­book is back up.….….…my crops will be wilting.

tasty rump?

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for those that wor­ried that i had not got back safely from Tel Aviv, here i am safely on my corner , sur­roun­ded by laptop computers…one has given up the ghost as i knew it would , so i have been using a tiny note­book instead but it is too slow and jerky,serves me right for buy­ing the cheapest.…..

any­way. last post­ing i was in Tel Aviv.

since then , i was home for about 36 hours then drove to cen­ter parc­sin the lake dis­trict to join Nic­ola, Chris­topher and the chil­dren for a very dif­fer­ent hol­i­day to the swel­ter­ing heat of Israel.

Which par­ent is the cra­zi­est ? asked the children’s enter­tainer of my small grandson.….Grandma was his instant reply, which is how i ended up on stage try­ing to make a dog out of a balloon.same child informed me i was ’ not as old as i was sup­posed to be’

i rode a bike for the first time in 43 years, wobble wobble wobble.…..well i had wobbled round to the local post box once a year ago, then put bike in gar­age and for­got it.

then home to Glas­gow with the four chip­pen­ham fam­ily following.…they got here first.….……and here they stayed till the second wedding…a very dif­fer­ent affair

i was pro­claimed ‘offi­cial pho­to­grapher’ which was very very scary…i amassed cam­eras, bat­ter­ies , memory cards, white umbrel­las, sil­ver sheet for reflec­ted light.….….tripod…etc etc.

this wed­ding was of my Nephew and was in the beau­ti­ful ruined Hailes castle , near Haddington.the whole thing was great fun from start to fin­ish, includ­ing a bouncy castle for chil­dren and adults alike.

as you can see from the pho­to­graph, the heav­ens opened and it poured trop­ical type rain for a few minutes just as the mar­ried , it added to the gen­eral fun of the day.

me havin fun on bouncy castle

. did man­age one day at the Edin­burgh fest­ival while find­ing the castle the day before the wedding.

since then i have been edit­ing thou­sands of pho­tos, cre­at­ing a photo book online and cre­at­ing a DVD.…which is at last fin­ished and pos­ted to the young couple, such a relief.

all this excite­ment left me exhausted and i came down with the com­mon cold…a won­der­ful excuse to play games on face book for a few days.

And lastly …the answer to the age old question .….….…

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