Monday – TV day. Having heard we would not be getting a disc of the show in advance we, well I, spent most of the day in a state of heightened anticipation. I was worried about the general reaction, worried about what the show would actually contain and most worried that everyone else would see …
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Rest o’ the week
Thursday – Ady went down before us to watch the ponies being tacked up. He is doing some ghillieing next week and Good Neil the Farrier was over so the ponies were being shod. The kids and I packed up a picnic and followed him down. We walked along to the pier with Trudi and …
Tuesday, Wednesday
Tuesday – work in the morning for SNH. Still on the office move and still not remotely organised or properly planned so lots of standing around waiting and a small amount of moving boxes and dismantling furniture. All a bit of a joke really. We went to the shop after work for some snack food …
A whole week
has whizzed by… Wednesday – Market Day for me – it was Fliss & I and we were medium busy with a few flurries of busyness but no real rushed off our feet moments. Ady went along to meet the boat and collected exciting parcels for us – new phones. Our monthly contracts were both …
Tuesday
Castle shift for Ady and I this morning. Instead of the dusting in the castle we were helping with the office move though. The White House (current SNH office) is being turned back into housing and the office is moving to the Big Green Shed agricultural building outside of the village. With Lesley on maternity …
Monday Monday
This morning it was tipping with rain. Ady went to feed the animals and I made some bread (I had sold a Croft 3 ‘hamper’ of bread, eggs and jam to someone coming off the boat) and some cookies ready for Market Day / Teashop on Wednesday. The weather cheered up so Ady did some …
Sunday spring (?) cleaning
This morning Scarlett and I walked down to the village to have a look round for the cat and write on the board outside the shop that he is missing from the croft and has been spotted in the village. No sign of him today. Before we left I made some cheese scone mix as …
Cat spotting
Wednesday was meetingtastic. First Fliss & I met Manager Mike to chat about the community polytunnel being put up in the field near the castle. An excellent idea as it will be nice and central for everyone to use. Mike agreed although he later came back and said that there would need to be planning …
Monday, Tuesday
It feels like it should be way past Tuesday already. Not sure why though… Yesterday I mostly baked I think. I made bread dough in the morning so we would have rolls for lunch. Then some more bread dough for actual bread to cook later, then two women appeared up on the croft asking after …
Thursday and Friday, Saturday and Sunday
Thursday was Sheerwater day but it was really, really windy and when Ady phoned to check it was running he was told it was but it was choppy out there. After some discussion we decided not to go. A tough one really as we’ve never  missed one before through choice, only because we’ve not been …
Teashop and to dos
Teashop shift for me today, working with Ali as Fliss is on holiday. It was not as busy as last week but we still took over £200 so over £100 even after we’d paid the community hall our 10%. Davies sold another four postcards too. Yay! I had some nice chats with tourists and Ady …
Monday, Tuesday
Monday – rained and rained and rained and rained. Oh and was quite windy too. Sigh. It’s JULY! I expect, anticipate and accept this in November but July is supposed to be the trade off period, the time to be cursing midges… I’ve said before and will say again if this had been our first …
Weekend
Overshadowed by the utter calamity which was Ady going to check on the cats first thing on Saturday to discover they had escaped!!!! I can’t even talk about it yet as bird lovers on Rum will be horrified at the prospect of wild cats on the island trashing the birds (they are a pair of …
Rainy, rain, rain. And a bit of wind too.
A reminder of the winter ahead, bummer after a couple of nice days of actual summer. Ah well. I checked on the cats first thing, they had eaten all their food and drunk all their water so I topped that up and then came back in for Popmaster. Ady and I walked down to the …
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Cats and whales and au revoirs
This morning we took Emmanuel down to the Sheerwater with us as he was heading off on the later boat. Steve Dev O was heading off today and happy to take him as far south as Perth where Steve lives so that worked perfectly. Emmanuel was planning a day in Edinburgh tomorrow before heading back …
Multi tasking
Saturday – post office in the morning for me. I couldn’t find my keys in the morning and had a sudden flash of realisation that they were probably in the back pocket of my posh mainland jeans which I would have been wearing the previous Saturday having worn them home on the Friday and knew …
Slipped again….
Tuesday was work. Only Ady and I this time which was far better, no being cornered by Clare talking. We had two final bunk beds to dismantle and the rooms to hoover clean afterwards so I did the beds while Ady did the hoovering. Then we went through the two kitchens and reduced the crockery, …
One week catch up
Tuesday morning Ady and I went off to work at the hostel. We were dismantling bunk beds. I think everyone else thought I got the raw deal as I was a dab hand with the allen key and dismantled four while Ady loaded them into the trailer and moved them across to the castle and …
WWOOFers
Work for me this morning. I’d tried to get hold of Jinty as I had heard she was back and wondered whether she wanted me to do post office or whether she would do it. I went down anyway as Neil & I needed to do various Rum Venison paperwork tidying and posting off. Jinty …
Weekend
Friday morning was a stressy one. I’d left the post office open and asked Ali to come and give me a hand doing the end of week process from Wednesday. It took us most of the two hours to do so and while I was fairly que cera cera about the whole business Ali was …