Monday – we decided to head off on the first boat on Monday, it was a nice day for the cruise. So we dropped Bonnie off with Ali and headed to the pier. The boat was quiet but got progressively  busier as we called at Canna, then back to Rum, then on to Eigg. Train …
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Four day catch up
Thursday – The kids all headed off down to the village to hang in a gang. So good to have a gaggle of older kids here this last week or so, made me realise how much D&S miss having others to hang out with. Adding Ben to the mix was even better. I have no …
Tuesday, Wednesday
Yesterday the kids were off out with Poppy and Evie for the day again. Ady was digging a ditch behind the static to help with drainage and I decided to do some outside stuff too. I had initially planned to plant out the asparagus and maybe the peas so started clearing the few weeds which …
Sunday, Monday
Yesterday the kids were off away for the day with Poppy and Evie. It rained pretty much all day so I spent it almost entirely baking – I had four wholemeal loaves to make and seven pies for an order. A walking group staying in the bunkhouse who had been in touch about produce. They …
Today today…
Ady was off to work this morning. I woke early and laid in bed reading for a while before getting up. I labelled up the midges in resin keyrings and pendants I made yesterday and a scarf I finished yesterday too ready to take down to the shed. The kids got up and we all …
Way to catch up
A whole week gone. Friday – Calmac decided they would run just one boat to Rum so Mum & Dad did the shopping and got to Mallaig. In the end their crossing was OK and they arrived safe. Davies, Scarlett and Bonnie stayed at the croft while Ady and I collected them. It started to …
Argh people!
Post Office shift for me this morning as Jinty is away for a few days. So that mostly entailed drinking tea with Neil, with brief interludes of Ross, Jed, Ian, Fliss and Sean breaking up the drinking tea with Neil. Some people have not voted at all on the marine harvest fish farm vote about …
Tuesday, Wednesday
Yesterday was a productive day – Scarlett finished painting the sporran and kilt around the caravan – it looks really good, a dark green colour which should preserve it for years to come. Davies made the most of the wind turbine giving internet and did stuff online, Ady and I did tidying up around the …
Bob improvement…
Ady and I went down to feed Bob this morning and not only did we coax him up onto his trotters we also got him out of his fenced area and walking about 20 foot. He’s still far from right but this felt like a massive leap (stagger!) forward. Certainly won him his 24 hour …
On not dealing with stress
I used to be really good at stress management, or maybe it was just such a frequent state of being in my life I was just really adept at it. These days though it rather knocks me for six. Last year I had a buzzing in my ears for a few days, I forget what …
Oh the blog is a boring place these days…
Yesterday was a wonderful day – I spent almost all of it in the polytunnel sowing hundreds of seeds. Seeds in containers, seeds in egg boxes and seeds in the ground. I just love the poetry of planting tiny little bombs of potential amazing plants and flowers and food and waiting to see what might …
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Rain and back
Friday and Saturday were pretty much wall to wall solid rain. It started raining early on Friday morning and just didn’t stop for about 48 hours. So Friday was an indoors day – crochet, animal programmes, pizza, games, music, chatting. Saturday was work for Ady and I in the morning – me at Post Office, …
More in brief
Post office for me again this morning. A busy morning again, not of working so much as making tea and chatting. Ady was working too – helping move stuff about and clean the newly converted into two houses SNH white house. After work I walked along to meet him, collected the laundry and we came …
Return to sunshine
It is days like today which remind me why we love it here so much. Long, sunny, beautiful and free. This morning Ady was was working on the new pig pen. I helped carry some posts up the hill and then went off to plant artichokes. Ali had given me some more yesterday so I …
Monday, Tuesday
Monday – In the morning I chopped up some firewood and helped Ady move a barn door from the bottom of the croft to halfway up. We’ve used it as the floor of a pig pen a couple of times and it was in a house Ady has dismantled to use the bits for a …
The weekend
Saturday – I realised late ish on Friday that I had said the first Rum choir meeting would be on Saturday. I had also tentatively arranged for a visiting couple to call in for a cup of tea on their way to the boat. They were supposed to be camping at Kilmory so by my …
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
Wednesday morning was pretty grim weather, again. Ady and I put up the price signs on slates I had made but that was about the sum total for me of productive on the croft stuff. After lunch I went down to Crafternoon. Ady came with me to get stuff from the freezer for dinner. Had …
Not much to say…
but in the interests of staying up to date… We had hoped for a semi decent day of weather today and had plans to be outside but it mostly rained. Ady moved animal feed about first thing so he was productive. I was less so… we ticked various things off our lists of stuff to …
A silent week
Erm… Wednesday would have been Crafternoon. Ady and I walked down to the village in the morning to get stuff out for dinner and collect post. We bumped into Mike and Ali so stopped to chat. Ali invited us up for a cup of tea but we were keen to get back. On the way …
More like it…
Monday – In the morning Scarlett and I walked down to the village to buy butter and margarine for baking cookies as she had requested. Ady came part way with us to sort out a sign which had been put up a bit wonky and possibly could lead visitors the wrong way to the croft. …