Fiona's Quiet Life

when i was a wee girl play­ing end­less games of patience i wished that all the shuff­ling and lay­ing out of cards could be done automatically.….….….….….….fast for­ward 50 yrs
i sit play­ing end­less games of fourty theives solit­aire on face­book and all things are done by press­ing a small bit of my laptop.
see wishes do come true.

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would have a lot more cup­board space if one was not full of dust­ers and tnother full of used car­rier bags, i seem to be incap­able of throw­ing old fab­ric out just in case i need a bit of rag .…..it is not as if i do much clean­ing any­way.
but today i resolved to make the house as tidy and shiny clean as a show house , then sit in it and do noth­ing except chat to friends on face­book for weeks..

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i was ‘get­ting in a state’
hav­ing updated my out­look express or whatever it is i use to read emails, all my favour­ites dis­ap­peared, and i could not find a way to post on to this blog.….….….but as you see, here i am back again.
my neigh­bour across the road told me today that she asked her friend in Canada what was hap­pen­ing in our street. and Linda who used to read me on yahoo has been get­ting wor­ried. so i am back at it again.

the ducks have gone , just as i have lots of bar­ley to feed them but i am hop­ing they are look­ing after duck­lings in the local park. him upstairs spent 11 days with his delight­ful lady in her home , in her space and meet­ing her friends and fam­ily ..they are still as tight an item so i am hopeful .

so the people who had bought Nic­ola and Chris’s house then couldn’t move in because their buyer didn’t pay have resold their house and it is all on the move again.….…..but we are not house hunt­ing till cash is in their bank. have great hopes this time though.

there have been more women racing down the street.….…..17.000 of them Judy and harry next door, him upstairs and i handed out cups of water.…we all got a bit damp and a great time was had by us if not by the runners.

did i men­tion the guy tak­ing pho­tos of the house next door.….….…..he was tak­ing pho­tos from his car so him upstairs took his dogs for a walk past the car and i took pho­tos of him and his car then harry …hav­ing more sense than us actu­ally went and asked him why he was tak­ing pix or our houses.….….…he said he was loc­a­tion hunt­ing for a film com­pany in India look­ing for a.….…yes i have writ­ten this before haven’t i ah well a sign of aging all this repeat­ing ones stories.

i am fas­cin­ated by the signs of aging in myself, there is now an inch long white streak start­ing at my temple…it only shows when my hair is wet .blond hair is much darker when wet. and arth­ritis in one finger.……well i am sup­pos­ing it is arthritis…it is like watch­ing a story unfold. i feel quite pleased with myself that it is all hap­pen­ing on cue .

him upstairs has put up a wall moun­ted cloths line thing for me.….….…i don’t trust it for sheets or large tow­els but it is great for little items.

so it was dur­ing what i thought was a lull in the gale force winds that i thought i might nip out and plant some small plants i had got half price so i open the back door and.….……whoosh…hitting the pav­ing stones at enorm­ous speed was a tile from the roof sharp edge down.…one step more and.….…

i decided it would be safer stay­ing inside and using my elec­tric saw..so i did,

and the cup­board which had the worlds most ugly shelves now has half as many shelves and looks good.….….well it will if the paint ever dries.….……it hasn’t to date.

a state of high excite­ment is in me,i have ordered a bar­rel green house bar­rel­green­house.co.uk/ -.….….….it is made by coopers out of old bar­rels and is all recycled stuff it is small and cute …prob­ably only got room for six plants

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i admit it..i am lazy, and blog­ging might seem like home­work if i did it regularly.…i never did any home­work which is why i am where i am today.…oh. well actu­ally i am doing quite well.….…and dys­lexia and mild asper­gers didn’t help.

so, what is this about romance.….…not me, i am way too indol­ent for any­thing like that, though a gentle flir­ta­tion is not bey­ond me.

any­way,

first it was the ducks.….….three males chas­ing a female ‚fly­ing about two meters above the road at great speed.….…she would have triggered a speed cam­era. next day it was one female hid­ing up a syca­more tree while one male was going mad hunt­ing for her .….….then next day he and she floated in my tiny pond and they have reappeared at odd times, now it is either he or she so i am hop­ing there are eggs some­where and they are tak­ing it in turns to sit on them. mean­while the female eats out of my hand but the male keeps his dis­tance, all very enter­tain­ing for small grandsons.

Him upstairs is deep into what i hope is the per­fect romance, she was here for a week and they had a magical time.…so all you people of a cer­tain age , it can still hap­pen for you too.:-)

been back to Malta, this time we were enter­tained by one of Sheena’s mature stu­dents who is Maltese, he showed us bits that tours don’t go to and a most won­der­ful res­taur­ant, and we spent a lovely even­ing with his fam­ily in their home. there was a hot tub on the bal­cony of our hotel so Sheena and i spent the even­ings look­ing at the full moon and drink­ing bad wine.

cross with M&S today.…..they sent me a voucher for a free Per una small leather item , i.e. purse or belt .….….….but there were none at that price ‚in fact there were none at all so they said i could get any per una item with it.……but that meant i had to spend a lot more to use my ‘free’ £10.….….….not impressed.

Scot­land has been HOT.….….….so pleased to see some rain today. even though it rained on me when i went to vote.….some of the parties are down­right silly.….….…..there were approx 16 on my slip, one was a pir­ate party.

watched the royal wed­ding all day last Fri­day, excel­lent entertainment.…i am sure they don’t cost any more than a pres­id­ent , and there is con­tinu­ity instead of every two years the run up to an elec­tion starts so little gets done.….……

even i can appre­ci­ate what people are say­ing about the pleas­ant­ness of the rear end of the sis­ter of the bride, and i have never heard a les­son being read so well as was done by the brother of the bride.…..way bet­ter that ‘four wed­dings and a funeral’

so .….……the Eng­lish way of house selling is still as stu­pid as ever.….….……wouldn’t hap­pen in Scotland.….….…the House in chip­pen­ham was sup­posed to be handed over to its buy­ers on a Wed­nes­day, the buy­ers had taken their chil­dren out of the school they were at and star­ted them at the chip­pen­ham school, but… the per­son who had bought that house pulled out of the deal on the Fri­day before so the whole chain ground to a halt and all the houses are back on the market.….….…when will Eng­lish law catch up with Scotland.…it is a good thing Nic and Chris hadn’t bought any­thing up here…they were right to be dis­trust­ful of the sale.

so house hunt­ing is on hold.….….…..well still looking, .

last cam­era club night of the sea­son tonight, present­a­tion of sil­ver cups etc.…..i didn’t come any­where near win­ning one, partly because i don’t enter enough images, but mainly because the club mem­bers include some superb photographers.i am not one of those members.

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