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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there is a hole at the end of the drive­way, it has been there nearly a week.…..i have been wait­ing for 22 months for Scot­tish water to join up the pipes put in by Tom the builder… to the water mains thus bypassing the old lead pipes that have been here for over 100 years.
there is no sign of any­thing hap­pen­ing to join up the water or to fill in the hole again, it seems they do the bit on the path, then they join up a bit of pipe, then they dig half way across the road . join up and fill in hole then do it all over agin on the other side of the road…seems a bit palaver to me.

mean­while they told me they were not going to dig it , so i didnt get my car out..then they dug it any­way so after a few days of not going out i even­tu­ally had to to get food for both me and visitors.……Abby and JJ com­ing too…so i got the car out with great dif­fi­culty, bought lots of food.….…..then scraped the side of the car on the gate­post try­ing to get back in.grr!!

my quiet life has been any­thing but quiet,quite noisy in fact, small grand­sons came to stay, then large grand­son came to stay now small ones are stay­ing and so are their parents,then quiet for a week till they all come back dur­ing the great house move.

so you can see why i don’t blog much..who wants to hear all about grandchildren.

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sorry to have been absent for so long,
i havenot been idle, i have had suces­sions of grand­chil­dren staying,thay have all gone for a short time so, when i have given the house a good tidy up i will be back to the blog­ging. mean­while the old laptop gave up today so 15 yr old grand­son and i went and got a new one.….it is always use­ful to have a teen­ager with you when buy­ing new tec stuff.

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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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