Thursday morning Ady and I used fillafoam to fill the gaps in the shelter Ady has built for D&S’s bikes. It is pretty much done now, just needs a few wheelbarrows of gravel to give it a more solid floor than the mud in there just now and the bikes can come out of the …
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Home! :)
After the last post the kids and I headed into the town to get some lunch – it was tipping down and we were wet within about five minutes of stepping outside the hotel. The subway under the road in Fort William floods in the heavy rain (we discovered!) and while Davies was suitably shod …
Mainland Adventures catch up
Thursday – Jen arrived on the 1135am boat and Ady and I went to collect her at the pier. We bought her and her stuff up to the croft, had a cup of tea, handed over with demonstrations of the boiler and solar panels and took her over to the pigs. Tom had not come …
Ready, steady…
This morning was packing up clothes for me and the kids. I had half planned to chop some wood but never quite got to it. Quite possibly because although I woke up at 8am (early for me, especially at this time of year when it is barely light still at that time) I read my …
Henry
Sure enough Monday was a not leaving the static sort of day for the kids and I. Ady did the two rounds of animal feeding and spent a bit of time outside tying stuff down too. I made bread rolls and soup for lunch, did some crochet and then sat with Scarlett helping her write …
Squeezed in between Gertrude and Henry
Ady emptied the Rangerover of wood and seaweed onto the croft this morning. I sewed up my jeans – I won several second hand pairs on ebay just after Christmas so currently have about 5 pairs without holes in so my worst holey pair were relegated to repair material and my second worst have now …
Gertrude
Thursday – A one boat day instead of two. We went down to collect a delivery of wine – Aldi are doing wine deliveries and had some good offers on with free delivery.  I got a crate of fizz and a crate of white for under £50 which is an excellent price. Even Jinty’s cheapest …
Must blog harder…
Friday – erm…. nothing at all springs to mind. I know we had pizza, I know we watched Doctor Who. Oh, wait, yes, Fliss came up for lunch. I chopped wood in the morning and Ady did loo emptying, Fliss came up for lunch and chats about craft events. Saturday – we went down to …
To and fro and back again
It was tipping down with rain this morning so we stayed in. Ady and I spent some time looking at our original croft business plan and talking about what needs to be brought up to date, what has stayed the same and brainstorming a few money making ideas. The kids drifted in and joined in …
Hurty finger, hurty knee
Finger is my ring finger on my left hand I know why it hurts – it’s from whacking logs with the sledgehammer and axe to split them. Another couple of logs brought up the hill and chopped and split this morning though so hurty finger justified. The hurty knee is of slightly more concern; my …
We did, we did get that seaweed
A very productive day in which teenagers acted a bit like teenagers which I found annoying. After Popmaster this morning we all went down to the village, called at the shop to post letters, buy stamps and get milk, then along to the pier to meet the boat and send off empty jerry cans for …
Settling back in
Saturday – Post office for me in the morning, good to be back behind the counter again 🙂 I was busy with visitors rather than anyone actually needing the shop or post office though. Ali, Fliss, Stevie, Mike, Trudi (3 times!) and Neil all came in. Stevie, Trudi and Fliss all hung around a bit …
How to catch up?
A quick whizz through I guess: Tuesday – the scan happened. Ady was booked in for 4pm. I’d been told by a radiographer friend to ask when the results would be back on the ward so did so and was told probably the following day. We were still a bit despairing at that point, not …
So last year…
The day before New Years Eve. Is probably one I will never, ever forget. In the morning we had one of our Family Conferences. We had had a lot of the four of us worrying about what each other was doing rather than what we were doing ourselves – me as much as anyone else …
And so that was Christmas….
Christmas Eve – Ady did some outside stuff in the morning, can’t remember what but it took longer than he expected. He came in and we were getting stuck into making Christmas crackers when Faye and then Dave turned up for a cup of tea, which rather disrupted that. We finished them after they had …
Busy being sociable and festive and stuff
Saturday – Ady was working in the morning. We had diesel going off so I walked down to the shop and got various bits and pieces and cadged a lift to the pier with Neil, dropping all the shopping off at the Jeep which Ady had at the hostel on the way. It was a …
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Firewood and festiveness
This morning was firewood. It was sort of raining and not very nice but this afternoon was dreadful so definitely the right way round to spend the day. Ady unloaded the wood from the car onto the croft while I split and chopped four rounds / four bucketfulls. Hoping to get more done tomorrow / …
A list of things I want to….
learn more about, research, try and think about in 2016. New things to learn for possible selling stuff from the shed: Rum map crafts – Christmas baubles, magnets, boxes, pendants, clocks (Rum time?!) Baskets, willow weaving etc. More stuff with Ady’s photos – mugs, bags, canvas prints Things to try and do on the croft …
Musical cars
I’ve just been reading January’s posts to start writing a 2015 round up and was most amused to see that we are doing the almost exact same things just now as we were this time last year. Post office this morning to send Mum & Dad’s present to them, it cost 95p so well worth …
Sausages
Down to the hall after Popmaster this morning. We all went including Bonnie and the kids sat playing with tablets while we were in the kitchen. Scarlett came and helped a bit and Davies came and took some photos. I couldn’t get Fliss’ / The community mincer to work and when Ady came (he’d popped …