Sheerwater boat trip today. We saw quite a few porpoises which is actually the best we’ve had in weeks and weeks. Pretty poor generally though. It’s so cold here still that there are not even sea birds really let alone cetaceans. We’ll keep going but it’s definitely been the worst year so far for spotting …
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Wednesday
I worked this morning. Jinty left Rum on Sunday with various things the matter with her and was admitted to hospital. She is okay and is hoping to be back on Friday but as the ferry is looking cancelled due to strike action it will probably be Saturday instead. So I did post office. I’ve …
Good to be home
We all slept in a bit this morning – 8am for Ady, 9am for me, 11am for Scarlett and midday for Davies when I woke him up. We listened to Popmaster and debated tasks for the week and the day ahead. We had planned to do stuff in the fruit cage and walled garden but …
Done
Thursday – we were up and out, Ady woke everyone, enthusiastic about the novelty of a toaster making breakfast for everyone. We were out of the flat by 9am and at the show by 930am. We did the big machines first so weighed ourselves down with all the free stuff early. We did the food …
Show so far…
Wednesday was a crazy long day. We were all up early and ready to go well on time. Except at the last minute I realised Scarlett was wearing a pair of trousers that had tea stains on them on the front and mud stains on the back. All her decent trousers were already packed, the …
Peas and quiet
Weather has been poor today, windy and rainy with short breaks of midgey inbetween. Makes it easier to head away tomorrow though. I did manage to get down to the walled garden and plant out the peas though so that is all I had wanted to achieve before we go off done 🙂 Yay. I …
Monday
Work for me this morning, an extra post office shift as Jinty had headed over to Eigg for their anniversary ceilidh. It worked well for me as I’ll be missing my Saturday shift this week so meant I was not actually down on wages for the month. It also worked well because my usual Saturday …
Falling in love again
There comes a day every spring on Rum when I fall back in love with life here. It’s late coming this year, nearly midsummers day but it’s arrived at last. Winter seemed to last forever this year, coming hand in hand with the crashing realisation that we would not be spending the winter ahead in …
If only for Michelle ;)
Work this morning – post office for me and Ady’s last ever hostel shift. I did mine on Monday. The hostel closes forever this Monday coming and those of us here will be celebrating with tea and cake in the kitchen. It’s an ugly building, really expensive to run, poorly insulated and leaky. It’s been …
Remind me….
Of this, on the days when I wonder quite what we’re doing. Remind me that when we just do what we came here to do – grow crops and look after our animals I could not be any happier… This morning Ady got distracted looking at the solar panel which had not been putting charge …
Wednesday, Thursday
Wednesday – Ady went off to work again in the morning – racking up those last few shifts before the hostel shuts, just as well as we’ll be spending money next week so it’s good to feel it’s been earned before it’s been spent. I woke the kids up, we all had croissants for breakfast …
Quick catch up
Friday – Don’t recall what we did in the morning. After lunch Ady and I went to the ferry to collect Big Dave and various stuff from the ferry. We dropped off some of the stuff we had collected for Jinty and then all came back to the croft. Dave came over tea and doughtnuts …
No vomit
This post should have appeared on 4th June No bloody dolphins either. Even the Sheerwater, our weekly splurge of a tenner and escape from everything to remind ourselves of why we live here and how lucky we are has been pants this year. The last two weeks have been vomit voyages, this week …
Hosting a school trip
The irony was not at all lost on us…. 😉 Yesterday morning I made brownies, we had all gotten bored of the oat cookies I had been making for TV crew and WWOOFers in great numbers so having made a tray of brownies for Fliss as a birthday present on Saturday which we had snaffled …
I’m Nic and I didn’t like Breaking Bad….
That was a bit bleaty yesterday wasn’t it. Pissed with rain all day again today and infact still is. The wind has blown in a fairly sporadic fashion, veering between so fast the turbine is screaming and then stopping altogether so no reliable power all day. It is tied up now. The kids have …
Birds and buzzing and stuff
Hmmm, got to Tuesday I think. Lost track of days a bit this week but it has mostly been raining. It is still really cold and windy and there has not been a single day where it has not rained at least once every hour even if just a brief shower. There has been hail …
Missed a week
Ooops. Monday – I was working Post Office in the morning. In the afternoon Steve came up for a cup of tea and chat. Tuesday – Ali and I did Steve’s review in the morning at her house. That went well, can’t recall the afternoon. Wednesday – we cut it fine heading to the pier …
The second half of the week.
Wednesday – Ady’s birthday. 51. We realised it was 22 years ago that he passed his driving test (on his 29th birthday), somehow that made him feel older than being 51 did! We packed up a bag after Popmaster and headed off to Harris beach. We gathered loads of driftwood and Davies laid and lit …
Wet, not very springlike
The weather has been shockingly bad again. Sunday was dreadful, almost 24 hours of non stop rain. We had a lovely roast dinner, assumed Tom would not attempt to walk back in the rain, not least because after such rainfall the river are in spate and utterly unsafe to cross so your previous route may …
Wednesday Onwards (and upwards)
Can’t recall what happened on which day but I know there have been ducklings – in the caravan, out on the croft. We remain at two indoors and five outside. The five outside have had adventures already – they all broke out with their mama and went down the croft but we were worried about …