Thursday – in the morning Megan the student came up with her friend Molly to explain about her dissertation which is a mapping project and leave some questionnaires and maps with us. Scarlett packed up the rucksack with lunch stuff and we headed down to the pier. It was a busy Sheerwater with a few …
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Breeze and midges alternate
I was Mrs Post Office this morning as Jinty is off for a few days. On the way down the hill I discovered a dead chick – mysteriously without a ring which is very odd as we ringed all we had released… It had blood in it’s beak and when Ady investigated further it was …
Fishing mostly
Friday was a raining all day sort of day and we had felt secretly relieved to be not welcoming Mike and Rose til the following day as the ferry was cancelled due to technical issues. They had found alternative accommodation and we were planning a quiet indoors day, some dvd watching and an early night …
Back with no ranting
And glad to be home 🙂 Monday – I did post office in the morning while Ady and the volunteers moved wheelbarrows full of gravel up the hill. Ady brought Leo along to the post office to meet me from work and we took him along to the pier to wave him off. It was …
Tired of Rum
This week has definitely been too busy. I’ve been doing Post Office shifts as Jinty is off, we’ve had six volunteers here plus Home Ed friend Leo, the weather has been a crazy mix of rainy, midgey and this weekend tent destroying gales. We’ve been taking phone calls from dysfunctional families in Sussex on both …
Dynamics
Monday – a quiet morning of packing and generally preparing for going off. Ady was over doing some wood cutting with Big Dave and they both came over for lunch, then we headed down to the ferry. The crossing was a little bumpy, but I spent it on the middle deck sitting with Fliss and …
Sound of silence
Friday – in the morning Scarlett and I walked along to see Ali and meet her new kitten, Buttons. He’s very cute and so tiny. I love cats very much and kittens are adorable but I’ve never hankered after one that much and prefer already grown cats really. We did have a pair of kittens …
Gin Queen
Tuesday –  A madly sunny day. I had half a plan to head down to the village to visit Ali and meet her new kitten Buttons but got stuck into outdoors stuff and then Poppy & Evie came to call for Scarlett who was planning to come down to Ali’s with me so I never …
From the sea and handbags
Another week nearly passed… Estelle managed to get on the ferry despite nearly missing it on Wednesday. She was lovely but her timekeeping made even Rum time look punctual! She left a really touching comment in the visitor book, bless her. Davies and Scarlett were up early to come to the ferry with us on …
And the weeks go by…
Not sure how that happened. Erm. Well. Estelle the volunteer has been lovely, she leaves tomorrow. She has worked hard ; planted seeds, dug in about 200 potatoes, weeded several raised beds, dug out some misplaced comfrey and moved it, sewn the remainder of the netting on the fruit cage, picked currants. She’s had …
One volunteer…
There were supposed to be about 10 on this event. Two French girls who had already been quite hard work by email and negotiated a later arrival time and asked tons of questions pulled out last week at short notice, three Americans cancelled this morning! Two French guys just didn’t turn up on the ferry …
More hatchlings, some not really July weather and Wikipedia outrage
Wednesday – We met the boat as we had fence posts arriving on it. We spotted one of the Rum pony mares in the castle field had had her foal (there are two in there, both due to deliver) – a little boy, very cute. As we got back to the croft we met Mathieu the …
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More hatchlings, wussy volunteers
Monday – we had a cup of tea with the volunteers at about 10am and showed them the first few jobs to be getting on with – cutting down all the grass & weeds in the walled garden, filling a couple of big holes in the track just outside the croft where the river has …
Further hatchings and surprise volunteers
Friday – in the morning we made more animal pens.  Scarlett joined us for a bit and had a go at constructing one – drill and staple gun operation. She is very practical, I swear she could run Croft 3 all by herself that girl. We had lunch and then Ady and I went to …
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Wednesday & Thursday, hatchlings and dolphins
Yesterday Ady and I went down to collect a sack of potatoes from the shop, post a letter and collect the IRCT trailer. It is an old SNH one which they no longer had a use for so donated to the Trust and the IRCT rent out for a fiver a time. We had a …
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Rainy and windy
I stayed in bed reading this morning as it was tipping down with rain and all windy. When I got up I finished off the dreamcatchers I had started last night, adding feathers and beads and labelling and pricing them, then I took them down to the shed and hung them up. I also added …
Feathers
This morning after Popmaster Scarlett and I walked down to the village to send some post, collect some stuff from the freezer and drop some stuff off at the freezer. We bumped into Neil for a chat on the way back. Back at home we checked on various broody birds and then had lunch. Ali …
Rain at last
Friday – An on the croft day. I had some bread to make for an order so I did that. We tracked down another broody duck – that’s three now sitting one eggs, at least one of which is surely due to hatch in the next few days. Ady secured the trampoline down with various …
Nearly a week gone by…
Saturday – My usual morning to myself although Ady was home earlier than usual so it was slightly curtailed. I spent the time baking instead of crocheting, cheese scones, peanut butter cookies, cherry and almond cupcakes with marzipan. All very nice 🙂 After lunch Ady and I walked down to get some stuff he had …
Midgey McMidgeface
An overcast, still and very midgey day today. I spent the morning inside with half an eye outside and a plan to head out to stitch on the fruit cage netting but every time I thought I might venture out Ady came back in to take cover from the midges so I stayed inside. I …