Fiona's Quiet Life

the silence from this end is because i am not there, i am here…Tel Aviv, and i am way too mean to pay for Inter­net access, well i was until yes­ter­day when i decided to hide from the sun.
it is always hot in israel in august but this one has been the hot­test for many years i am told,and me a per­son who likes to be cool.

get­ting set up

i have been to a wed­ding on a beach, it was still 33c at midnight.…..wedding excel­lent fun.

and yes­ter­day i went and got covered in dead sea mud.…there will ‚or per­haps not, be a photo of me look­ing like a mud covered hip­po­pot­amus when i have seen what my brother in law took. didn’t hang about there as it was 42c and i was scared of burn­ing, though they say the UV rays are dif­fer­ent there.
shall be home very soon when more pix will be forth­com­ing , but not before i have vis­ited the craft mar­ket and res­isted buy­ing shiny things like necklaces.…might do some christ­mas shop­ping though

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i am so slow at doing things, i buy gad­gets ‚then leave them on a table for sev­eral months because i am sure that i will never make any sense of the instructions.….the gad­get for con­vert­ing slides and neg­at­ives ter­ri­fied me.…and it is so simple to use. my com­puter is now full of ancient images.

scanned from over 60 yr old negative

the same thing applied to access­ing my blog from a com­puter other than my ancient one…well it involves remem­ber­ing pass­words and also find­ing the admin bit.
well after pro­cras­tin­at­ing for at least two years tonight i did it in a few moments.and so pleased with myself that i am put­ting it on my wee port­able notebook.….….in order to keep fam­ily and friends up to speed with latest goings on.

so we replaced the lead pipes that carry the water to our taps. last august.……on monday a man from Scot­tish water came to inspect the work and arrange get­ting it attached to the mains.….i don’t know why i am here were his first words. so i told him.

i can’t pass that he said we didnt see it being put in, .…we had con­tac­ted them many many times.….….….….……i showed him copi­ous num­bers of pho­to­graphs of the work.….….…my builder in a trench halfway up his thighs.….….……not deep enough said he…it might freeze.…it was –20 here last winter for sev­eral days, it noth­ing froze and noth­ing has frozen for 100 years…standards are dif­fer­ent says he.

entrenched

so i still have my sup­ply through the old lead pipes.

going to a wed­ding on a beach in Israel. soon…it is going to be hot.……i am a cool north­ern person…i have total sun block.

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i am feel­ing pleased, five minutes after moan­ing that i couldn’t get my neg­at­ives to turn pos­it­ive , i decided to read the instructions…i hate read­ing instruc­tions, too many words.….….…it was simple

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I have been scan­ning old pho­to­graphic negativs,it is easy and quick.…BUT .….…..can i find out how to get them to turn into pos­it­ive pic­tures by com­puter, no i can’t.….…..i get such things as…how to fix your neg­at­ive rela­tion­ship. or pet scan or any per­muta­tion of those and more , i am sure it can be done.
i will find a way.…eventually

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I sup­pose that just eat­ing a bowl of cher­ries is not a proper lunch, ah well, pity

this blog is so sporadic because, though I often say “ It’s going in me blog”.….I usu­ally for­get what it was by the time I get to a com­puter and there is no point of ‘talk­ing’ unless you have some­thing to say. Abi­gail says.…”Its going in me blog “ is going on my gravestone.

Him upstairs…remember him , my upstairs neighbour.….has given me per­mis­sion to say what ever I wish about his pur­suit of true love.…he is still per­sue­ing. It is an enter­tain­ment to watch the whole thing from down here.
Mean­while, he is at time behav­ing like a moody teen­ager, the latest being refus­ing to text one of his objects of pas­sion because she hadn’t delivered some theatre tick­ets and had gone off to a wed­ding in Lon­don.
Of course he had it for whatever reason…I sus­pect lack of communication.….wrong. So he dis­ap­pears off to his hol­i­day home. And she turns up here with tick­ets, she had four tick­ets, it is about 5 hours till the per­form­ance. He wont come back from lake dis­trict say­ing he has got other plans now. So I phone my brother in law , and if he will use ticket but he doesn’t want to go, so I end up going alone…and enjoyed it greatly.

Mean­while they are plan­ning to travel together all the way to Aus­tralia in Janu­ary… just as friends don’t get excited. ..I won­der how friendly they will be by the end of a jour­ney of that length.

I have done it, and my shoulders have come back down from up by my ears with the ten­sion of it all.…I have found all the bits of paper I need for the income tax man.….…..every year it makes me ill and my affairs are simple so I pity people with com­plic­ated tax issues.….and it is only July.

Had to get it done as on my jour­ney to Israel to a wed­ding soon I shall be on the same flight as my account­ant and didn’t want him look­ing at me with an exas­per­ated expres­sion, not that he does really but I feel like a school child who hasn’t done their homework.….a feel­ing I am very famil­iar with, I never did my home­work. I know I shouldn’t need an account­ant but dys­lexia in my case cov­ers num­bers as well.

Been in Chip­pen­ham again being referee

fish­ing

to a four year old and a six year old boy.

why go the easy way up

He has his uses though , does him upstairs, he has men­ded my elec­tric hedge trimmer.….no I don’t have an elec­tric hedge, you know what I mean.…..but I did man­age to nip out and buy a smal­ler rechargeable one before I let him know it didn’t work because I knew he would love tak­ing it apart till he got it going and I wanted a smal­ler one. Now I have two

still scan­ning photographs.

8 . sixty six year old photos

OK now I am hungry.

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