A mad start to the morning when I got up for a wee intending to head back to bed to read for a while only to learn that the cancelled boat from yesterday which was coming here today to make up for it had been rescheduled again and was coming in 2 hours earlier than planned. Scarlett came down with us and we collected our much traveled Co Op shopping, an amazon delivery of playmobil and lego advent calendars (Christmas gift from my Mum at the kids request) and a stove top fan that we had ordered.
We swung by the freezer to offload stuff into that and then came home to put away the stuff for up here and stash Christmas stuff. We had lunch and then gathered our big pan to take down with us and headed back to the village. First stop was the hostel to see the doctor. Scarlett has a wart on her knee which came up about 3 years ago and looked like a big mole. She kept knocking it and I started to fret about it so took her to the doctors last time they were over and was told it was not a mole at all but a wart and they would bring some freeze spray over next visit. I was not entirely convinced by the doctor as he was a bumbling locum and when I suggested he just send the spray on prescription and I would do it he said he couldn’t do that but if we went off island then we could go and buy some over the counter. When I heard the doctor was visiting today I rang to check they would be bringing the spray and got the current locum (they are doing one month stints) who sounded lovely and said she would bring it to administer along with some cream to leave with me to follow up. Ady then rang to ask for more ibuprofen cream for his tennis elbow and she said she’d like to see him to show him some exercises.
She was lovely, such a shame she is not our forever doctor, really great manner, excellent with the kids, really unhurried with all of us, explained everything well etc. She did a long dose of the freeze spray and explained how it worked, what she was doing, what would happen next, then talked to Ady about his arm and then did a second dose of the freeze spray. It is stinging Scarlett a bit now but i think she did a pretty good job and am hopeful it might come off with just this one go.
Then to the hall. There were no kitchen keys so while Ady cleaned the loos and had a general hall tidy up I tracked down Lesley and got the keys to make some popcorn. We planned a while ago to do a Sunday Movie Matinee and it was felt that The Big Year might be appropriate given our recent twitcher invasion so the projector and screen was set up, popcorn was popped and 12 of us all settled down to watch. It was really good, almost felt like we’d all been to a real cinema!
We came home and all had showers, hair brushing, dinner and Will & Grace (series 3 arrived today).
It’s been such a dashing about day we’re thinking of calling tomorrow Sunday instead though!