The fine weather continues with a brief spell of rain on Tuesday morning the only respite. I’ve been midge making in the mornings, Ady’s been scything. We’ve been polytunnel watering, strawberry harvesting, moving broody hen plus chicks, released the peahens, who promptly went missing – very much hoping they reappear. I took the damaged netting …
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Sunday, Monday
Yesterday – I did some more midge making, finished off the yellow one, gathered some feathers and painted them and turned them into quills and put them in the shop. We finished the sink, getting the fence posts banged in and the cradle sited , the water connected and everything working. Then we went down …
Friday, Saturday
Yesterday morning I did an hours crochet and finished off two midges – a rainbow one and a tartan one. Ady came in for Popmaster and we spotted a group of folk down at the croft gate and realised they were The Wormells. Peter Wormell was the first ranger on Rum – arriving here in …
Wish you were here….
Second time this week I’ve heard that on the phone. First from Mum when talking about Frazer struggling to come to terms with Robin’s autism diagnosis and Kat finding it hard explaining to people why they don’t know which school he’ll be starting next year (apparently they need to wait for a further diagnosis regarding …
These midge you nights…
I’ve been heading to bed way earlier than usual as it’s been so midgey. They all flock to me once it gets dark and I have my laptop on as the light attracts them so I just get really fed up with them and go to bed. I remember the same happening last year. It …
Eigg, Rum, Rum, cuckoo
Off to Eigg on Friday. Before we left Scarlett and I had a row about her clothes, she had been arsey with me a couple of times during the week and I’d let it go each time but on Friday morning she just kept arguing with me until I lost my temper and shouted at …
Talking tours and boats
I had a surprising facebook message this morning from Bad Neil asking about the sheerwater boat trip – what time and how much. I assumed he was asking for someone else but no, when we arrived at the pier he, Lesley and Dougal were there ready to get on with us! First though it was …
Bell Tent Adventures
Yesterday I used the blog to find out the exact date of Lorna’s birthday as I am never sure just when in early June it is and rather embarrassingly could not actually recall how old she is about to be either. I used to be sooo much better at blogging and having sensible blog post …
Sunday and Monday
Sunday – In the morning Ady did some scything, Â he is planning on getting back to an hour a day like he did last summer. Then he went to meet Big Dave as they were doing car maintenance stuff together. The Rangerover is now fine and running again 🙂 Yay, that will save us lots …
Friday & Saturday
Friday – yesterday morning started much like this morning, windy and showery. The rain did break after Popmaster though so while Ady went out to tidy out the Rangerover which we’ve been using as storage prior to Big Dave’s visit I did some more herb spiral weeding. I have some slates around the outside to …
Twas a rainy Thursday
No Sheerwater for us today. Trudi went and said it was wild, they saw nothing other than an otter next to the pier and she was nearly seasick. So I’m glad we didn’t go, maybe we’ll be fairweather dolphin chasers this year. Instead we had a productive indoor day. Lots of cat cuddling and Kira …
Wednesday
A quiet morning – I was rudely awoken by Ady sitting quite heavily on my legs trying to get phone signal to ring the CoOp to pay for our shopping. Not the nicest way to be roused. After Popmaster we went down to meet the boat to collect said CoOp shopping. The mini greenhouses I …
A week of busyness and buzziness
Thursday – Continued glorious weather. We went off on the Sheerwater boat trip, our first of the year although I think the third of the season so far, we’d just not bothered as the weather had been pants. It was gorgeous, sunny, still, blue skies etc. We went off with our rucksack packed full, suncream …
Days outside
A lovely two days of no village intrusions on Monday and Tuesday… well until 5pm on Tuesday anyway. I’ve been weeding and sowing and potting on and planting out in the sunshine, singing along to music and just enjoying life, sold nearly £50 worth of stuff from the shop including the first midge. Scarlett’s been …
Sunday actually on Sunday, the actual post
Because that one rambled quite a way from today! I woke with Ady and he made me a cup of tea but I read for a while with the intention of getting up and then fell back to sleep. I got up for a cup of tea with Ady when he came in for a …
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Sunday actually on Sunday
It occurs to me that this blog is no longer really very bloggy. It’s sort of not about HE and not about the kids and not very regularly kept… Given how very secret and select the audience I could probably use it a bit more for more diary style stuff, I’m not even sure who …
Calmacking
Can’t at all recall what happened last Thursday or Friday. There would have been Crafternooning no doubt, pizzas undoubtedly but over and above that I simply do not recall. So I will skip ahead to Saturday instead. We were up at a most unGoddardly hour to drop Bonnie dog off at Sean and Ali’s and …
Canna Adventure
Ali resigned from the IRCT board a couple of weeks ago so last week she asked me if I was up for doing something together today while the board meeting was happening. Her resignation was not a happy or amicable one and she was feeling she wanted to be distracted and also to do something …
Wild weekend
Friday – morning we fixed a couple of raised beds which I had cobbled together with reclaimed nails and done a pretty shoddy job of a couple of years ago. They had never actually been filled with soil or used and had fallen apart. So Ady came down with the drill and lots of screws …
More mainlanding
Saturday – Ady worked in the morning. I did midge making stuff and when Scarlett got up her and I made bath bombs. It was one of those evolved as it went along type projects with us initially planning green and blue swirls in star shaped moulds to be sea themed. Except the silicone moulds …