Fiona's Quiet Life

I won­der how many chil­dren dia­gnosed with ADHD or are writ­ten off as badly behaved actu­ally have undia­gnosed type 1 dia­betes, per­haps blood sugar should be tested in all children.…..i have been talk­ing to a guide leader recently who said that an awful child had become really like­able after her type ! was dia­gnosed and her sugar reg­u­lated.
i know that if i for­get to have lunch while out shop­ping i get short tempered with people who do not have their money ready at the till point.

just a thought

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For­tune Visoc­chi, find­ing life a hoot.

talk­ing to my brother Gor­don Blair on Skype

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When i was wee we were lucky to have a phone, my father was the local Med­ical officer of Health and a GP so needed one. but my grand­mother shared her line with a neigh­bour it ws called a ‘party’ line and if you lif­ted the receiver you might hear some­body else talk­ing on the tline and you had to wait till they finished.

I am a sol­it­ary type and like my quiet, so , when i was talk­ing to My younger daugh­ter a few minutes ago and her land line rang with another call for her , i got to thinking,

I have four of the bloom­ing things
a land line, a ‘soft’ phone attached to my hub with a sep­ar­ate num­ber, a cell phone and i have credit with skype so that i can call land­lines and mobiles from my ipad or computer

this seems slightly insane.……bu then i have two com­puters and an ipad on at the moment so it might be me that is insane.

went to visit Ex hus­band For­tune ( Mark) Visocchi yes­ter­day as my old school friend and ex sis­ter in law Sheena Steven (Blair) from Enochdhu.now edinburgh…was stay­ing with me overnight.….…..we had a great old gossip.…..we are such oppos­ites he and i, he lives his life to a rigid timetable and is aston­ished when i tell him i decide what to do when i get up in the morning…so read­ers from Blair­folk who knew him as a wee lad­die he is doing well here in Glas­gow sur­roun­ded by our excel­lent daugh­ters and is very cheerful.was going to put his photo here but can’t see how to anymore

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I held her upright in her chair,my wet hair drip­ping down my neck, her breath­ing stopped two or three times, and there was not a thing i could do to help but hold on to her.

Hav­ing decided long hair made me look like a bag lady, i went to cousin Rosalyn’s salon for a hair cut, the usual banter was going on , hoots of female laughter, when a young woman in the next chair starts to choke…we all knew she has a tracheotomy tube to help her breath and we knew she can drown very quickly if water gets into the tube so great care had been taken.…what we didn’t know was that she needs a suc­tion pump every so often to clear the tubes and if she starts to cough the tube comes out .
Roslyn ran across the road for a doc­tor, the assist­ant dialled 999 and i held on to the breath­less young woman.two doc­tors and a nurse ran over to us, but who keeps suc­tion pumps . they did what they could with oxy­gen and an ambu­lance and a car full of para­med­ics arrived within a very few minutes with much needed pump.….…so all is well.

so som­body out there please design a port­able suc­tion pump .

after­wards we were all very shaken.…It brought back the last few hours of Basil’s life … 5 years ago on Feb­ru­ary 7^th.…..so i am sit­ting wrapped up in a blanket feel­ing exhausted.

Oth­er­wise my quiet life is still quiet

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Hav­ing an excel­lent birthday,

i have been quiet because noth­ing hap­pens much in my life.…well it does but it is much the same as in every­body else’s life.

we have sur­vived gale force winds, snow and ice and it is now just cold and damp.

i temp­ted fate buy buy­ing up all sorts of com­mon cold rem­ed­ies before Christ­mas and then say­ing ‘bring it on’ to the uni­verse .…so of course on box­ing day the com­mon cold hit me , but all over now and i shall be more respect­ful of the ‘unseen’ forces

So
The saga of the hole in the drive went on.….and on.…and on.
they dug it , filled it up. dug more of it , filled that up.…..took pho­tos, decided it wasn’t deep enough and dug it up again block­ing me in the house two weeks before Christ­mas unable to bet in and out with fest­ive food parcels.……but at last, on Christ­mas eve, after over two years mess­ing about they fin­ished it and took away all their stuff.….yippee.

catered the cam­era club party with one days warn­ing, …got a phone call from club pres­id­ent say­ing can you cater the party on Thursday…i cant i said ’ i am going to the cam­era cub party’.….….oh oops ‘yes i can’

so Him upstairs and i swooped on makro.….….and bought stuff.….….…..then asked the budget.….. ‘approx £1 per head.….a chal­lenge or what.…..but we got it done.

saw stuff in asda…£ 1.50 each or £3 for two.…i had to think about that one

Ebay has annoyed me because you can­not leave neg­at­ive feed­back for a buyer…i pos­ted things to a couple of p[eople before they had payed because i didn’t want to stand in post office queues for each one.…..their feed back was 100% positive.….later i read the feed back and it said they ordered but didn’t pay, but those buy­ers and me were unable to label it neg­at­ive feed back.…..be warned.

Our Fam­ily con­tinue to keep Tom the builder going.….…as Marisa’s boys are now both over 6ft tall they take up a lot of room if you add their enorm­ous friend and sev­eral musical instru­ment into the mix so they have applied for plan­ning per­mis­sion to add a couple more rooms to their house.….….and Nic­ola had had Tom mak­ing their lovely new house water tight.……well it will be soon, the gales showed up a few wee prob­lems but that wasn’t unexpected.

it is nice hav­ing all the boys so close.….….…the grand­sons , not tom the builder and his boys…though they are good fun too.

Him upstair’s romance goes on apace.…they went to Kenya ..brought me back cof­fee, yum.

Gar­lic with no sep­ar­ate cloves, just one big bulb…how cool is that.

Basil still in thoughts, one of his grand daugh­ters is doing a por­trait of ‘an old per­son’ for a school pro­ject . so i was look­ing out photos.….some i had taken on a fast shut­ter looked as though he was mov­ing when i flicked through them.…..nice in an odd way.

I have bought an Air fryer.….….it is won­der­ful, bung a slice of some­thing tasty or some skampi in it turn a dial and wait.…..so chrisp and hot …even makes frozen chips taste good.…huge dif­fer­ences in price though so if temp­ted ‚shop around.

got to fin­ish now as it is my birth­day so i need no excuse to watch rub­bish telly today.

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