Tuesday – Ady was in the village first thing to meet Ross as they were bringing a load of wood and a gas bottle up to the croft with the SNH ATV so he also went to the pier to meet the ferry. I made soup as I’d promised Scarlett and she was desperate for …
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Holiday first…
Saturday – a minor hitch in the leaving smoothly operation when Fliss’ conservatory was locked which rather scuppered the planned arrangement to leave Bonnie in there. Fliss was arriving home on the same ferry we were heading off on so we thought that would be the smoothest transition all round. That set back meant we …
End of week
Thursday – another day of definite improvement in the Ankle of Doom but still felt I should be sensible and stay mostly off it. So in the morning while Ady headed down to the village to meet the boat and do a few other bits and pieces down there I finished off the Rum newsletter …
Ouch actually
Tuesday – In the morning Ady and I went to the ferry as we had a butchers order coming off. Caught up with Ali for a chat, nipped to the shop for some milk (real milk again, it’s been nearly a week! Tea is simply just not the same with longlife, it’s somehow not quite …
Birthday weekend
Friday – A lovely birthday 🙂 Scarlett had made me a fab card with Kira cat on it, her pencil drawings are beautiful, she has a real eye for detail and capturing life-likeness. Davies had made me two books documenting our WWOOFing adventures with double pages for each host, highlights (hilarious ones) and pictures. They …
Getting outside and lighter later
Yesterday we took Faye over to Harris for animal feeding. Taking another pair of non resident eyes across the island always makes you see the beauty anew. It was a glorious day too, low sun making everything twinkly and well lit, animals looking gorgeous and Scottish with the red deer, the highland cows, the Rum …
I haven’t stopped being amazing, I just stepped outside for a while
Right, back to me. 2016 was one of those consolidating years. Good for resting, taking stock, pausing, doing a bit of growing. 2017 is about being amazing again. About being Nic, about going back to being inspirational, awesome, amazing, someone to feel proud of. I think I haven’t taken enough baths – not because I …
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Captain Fantastic and other wobbles
It’s been a funny old year. This time last year my whole world had been utterly dragged from beneath my feet. In years to come I will remember certain moments from that 10 days between realising Ady was really not OK and I was going to have to do something about it and getting him …
Ring in the new…
Saturday – I had not realised quite how affected I was by the anniversary of Ady’s adventure until I mentioned it somewhere else. I’d almost been holding my breath for the last few weeks partly telling myself clearly nothing bad would happen but partly almost expecting it to.  I’d been responsible for the initial idea …
Almost over
Yesterday – Scarlett had planned to come to Harris with Ady and I to feed the animals and I was half thinking of not going myself and staying with Davies. But she decided to stay behind as there was lots of wind turbine power and Davies got up earlier than usual too, so Ady and …
Christmas – before and after
I think I got to Thursday… when we didn’t get a ferry. I confess to holding out hope of a ferry pretty much up until the last minute on Christmas Eve even though everyone else had been doom-mongering all week and Calmac were promising nothing. I think I made the chocolate log (which was not …
Shortest Day
Sunday – Completely escapes me. I’m pretty sure there was hairbrushing for Scarlett and a visit from Bad Neil. There was a roast dinner and a festive film. Monday – Ady and I went down to  the village for some shopping, some post office business, some getting stuff from the freezer, collecting the SNH car …
Star maker, polar bears and elastic bands
Tuesday – I slept badly as I was convinced we would oversleep so every time I stirred I woke enough to check what time it was on my phone. At least three times. The room was stuffy and I woke from a really vivid dream about discovering a house underground on the croft. It was …
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Not our sheep
We still have additional livestock… Saturday – in the morning I listened to the radio and did the festive puzzle while Ady went down to post a parcel for me and pick Dave up from the boat.  He had forgotten to collect some stuff from the freezer so we walked down together to get it …
Tears and wobbles
Thursday – Ady was ghillying for SNH. The original plan had been for them to be out all day but he was actually home by lunchtime. I had some email conversations with Calmac about whether or not they were sending our animal feed delivery and once they had confirmed they were I headed down to …
Midweek and Happy Birthday Scarlett
Monday – Ady went off to work in the morning. I wrapped Scarlett’s birthday presents and then started the Christmas puzzle. I love puzzles 🙂 The kids have both a bit of  a go at it but it’s been mostly me. We had lunch and then I prepped dinner as we were heading down for …
Trees and sheep mostly
Thursday – Ady went to work in the morning. He and Ross used the ATV (all terrain vehicle) and trailer to bring up a load of wood. I was in the shed getting some jam and it really made me jump! I packed up loads of stuff including two secret santas which I have posted …
Bloody Wednesday
Well yesterdays post was a bit bleaty wasn’t it. It came after a crappy couple of hours of low level bickering with Ady and a thorny conversation with everyone else about what we’d do next if and when we leave Rum. Unfortunately that is quite an emotive chat to have and so after everyone had …
Another week… lots of crochet
It’s all been a bit samey really. Ady’s been working down in the village on the SNH hostel in the mornings which means he doesn’t get back until a very late lunch o’clock. By the time that is finished we only have 2 hours at most of daylight left. We have been using them for …
Community Meal, pimping midges, chopping wood
No idea what happened on Friday – it wasn’t a boat day, we would have eaten pizza, other than that anything could have happened. Well not anything, obviously there was no alien invasion, zombie apocalypse, no extreme weather or other such memorable events, so quite probably some indoors stuff like crochet. On Saturday I know …
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