Fiona's Quiet Life

I have not been idle.….….….well no more than usual.…..well i have had a lot of indol­ent moments but the sum­mer was taken up with grand­sons of assor­ted sizes…they seem to like stay­ing here, heav­ens knows why because i am way too selfish to spoil them in any way and grump quite a lot.

what a fast year this has been , i remem­ber my grand­mother say­ing that but now i see what she meant.…and she used to say
” you’ll appre­ci­ate me when I’m gone”.…..now as a ‘granny’ i do appre­ci­ate her allow­ing us to invade her life.

so
what has been happening.

Tea break for Nic­ola, Mar­isa and Cameron

Nic­ola finally got the keys to her house and all the stuff was moved in…well not all the stuff Pickford’s, try as they might …and they did try,even remov­ing the lounge door…were unable to get the sofa in to the lounge. so it went into the gar­age ‚for­tu­nately tom…remember Tom of my extens­ive build­ing works… Tom had been asked to make some repairs to the new house as water was get­ting in in a couple of places.…..we did know about that before buying.….….……anyway…where was i . ah yes Tom and his brother took down a ugly , use­less garden wall and they got it through the patio doors.

the wee boys stayed at my house for a wee while, and then went to the other grand par­ents while we painted their bedrooms…they objec­ted to lilac col­oured walls… and peach colours…the rooms a now a nice boy­ish blue..

there is a hole at the end of the drive ..it has been there for weeks, Scot­tish water came, dug it , put a plastic cover on it and went away.….….….getting in and out are difficult.…i have scraped the side of my car on the stone gate post.…..i might get cross soon.

i think up all sorts of things to put on ths blog but such is the state of my brain the things fly from it never to be recalled.….…so it con­tinuses to be a mundane record of the life of a wee sccot­tish widow.….…4 and a half years now…took a rose up to him on our anniversary .

my house looks like a jumble sale…i am selling things for a great niece to fund her trip to do good things in Peru…and selling things for a cousin and selling a  chan­delier for him upstairs.….….…we just want enough to buy a good bottle of wine for that one.….….….…:-)

My brother was over from Denmark,this time bring­ing 7 Danes with him, we had a very jolly even­ing here…i need a big­ger din­ing table.… and we all went for a Glas­gow buf­fet curry on another night.

scooped up Cameron and took him through to the Edin­burgh fest­ival fringe as he had never been.…excellent fun. his insulin pump has been a won­der­ful improve­ment in the man­age­ment of his dia­betes, the first few weeks were scary and exhaust­ing for them all as his mother had to check his blood sugar ever two hours at night… and wor­ry­ing as he was to go to orches­tra camp.…..but apart from some very low sug­ars all has gone well. His pump comes with a soft toy called Len­nie lion which he is sup­posed to put it in at night…he has his pump in a pocket sewn into his PJ’s .…..so we take Len­nie all over the place and pho­to­graph him , there is now a page on face-book ded­ic­ated to Len­nie lion and his adven­tures, much enjoyed by the younger chil­dren with type 1 dia­betes all over the world.

right, I am hungry now due to some lawn mow­ing and tree prun­ing today…which reminds me…how many daugh­ters’ can phone their moth­ers and ask to bor­row her axe.….…..as did Nic­ola last week

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