Sunday – breakfast with Big Dave and Faye over at the cabin and then we headed down to the village for a workshop. It was using a mechanical theatre and started off really well but a rather woolly collaborative story telling session followed by an even woollier joint art creation left the whole thing a …
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Saturday, actually on Saturday and the very same Saturday I am talking about
What a novelty! Work for me and Ady this morning – hostel for him, post office for me. Still not the same without Norman. 🙁 My morning was fairly tame, a few customers ranging from Ross, Bad Neil, Trudi, Claire, Fliss, Mel, Chainsaw Dave and some regular tourists who it’s always nice to see back …
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When Ben Fogle came
How did our lives get so mad? Monday – The crew were up with us filming in the morning and then they broke for lunch and said they’d be back with Ben. He was arriving on charter boat from Skye. They came back up at about 430pm with him and he came in to introduce …
Another item on the crazy list
When we arrived back on Rum on Monday we were met at the pier by Emily with Bonnie which always heightens the level of crazy. Stepping off the ferry with us were the first half of the TV crew and our first 2 volunteers of the year – Jen and Ivan. Â Jen found us through …
Monday 14th? That was ages ago….
Can’t even recall what happened last week… I know Ady & I worked on Wednesday morning at the castle / hostel. I know there was lots of rain. That might be about it. On Thursday we all went off to Muck for the day. It was a lovely day out. the weather was fab and …
Monday Monday
I’ve been sleeping really badly the last few nights. A quick mental tally of all the stuff that’s been going on the last week or so had me feeling fairly justified in minor wobbles though. We needed bread and I had exchanged emails with yesterdays visitors who had said they may call in again on …
All of April then…
Erm… Can’t recall at all the first couple of days but on Good Friday 3rd it was a mad busy Calmac for the first day of the summer timetable. 2pm arrival, it’s always late on the summer Friday boat and this was no exception. There were a fair few of us gathered at the pier …
Four days catching up
Saturday – work for Ady and I in the morning. Thanks to many power cuts over the last week the post office had crashed again and took about six reboots and nearly an hour to get up and running again. Lots of folk came for coffee and chats which was nice though. I walked along …
Thursday, Friday
Thursday – Ady was working in the morning, painting at Foxglove Cottage. I spent some time doing online stuff and then he was home for lunch. We all ate together and then I headed down to the village for Crafternoon. It was just Deb, Fliss and I as Ali was stranded on the mainland and …
More of the same
Monday – I was Mrs Post Office in the morning, Ady and Dave were on Trailer Fixing duty so they dropped me off at work and then headed back to start on that. We got it from What-you-want-to-do-Dave and took it to Harris before the track was fixed and the axle broke on it. WYWDD …
Thursday and beyond
Thursday – I was Mrs Post Office. Ady and the kids were booked onto a first aid course in the hall from the visiting GP surgery so they came down at 11 and I followed them in at midday when I finished cashing up. It was reassuring to realise just how much I have retained …
Northern Lights
Yesterday morning I spent some time baking – wraps for the kids lunch, bread dough for later and several batches of peanut butter cookies for general snaffling through the week. Â Ady was doing stuff outside. At midday we got changed and headed down to the village to attend the annual Familiarisation Day lunch. The Rum …
Oops…
Didn’t realise it had been so many days. Thursday – dreadful weather again, ferry cancelled so no veg, no milk and the shop was pretty much bare. Ady and I put on waterproofs and went down to the village for various supplies from the freezer and shop. I know we had curry for dinner …
Crafternoon
Wednesdays are Crafternoons at Fliss’. I don’t really like them. It’s me, Ali, Deb and Fliss and while I do get to drink tea, chat and catch up on the gossip while being productive on the knitting front (almost a whole scarf done today) it’s all a bit nicey, nicey and far too much talking …
Winds come and go
Monday – the weather was hideous. 60mph winds with 80mph gusts. Ady insisted on going outside a couple of times but could barely stand up out there. It tipped with rain too and we were getting regular text messages from people in the village checking if we were ok so unusually it was also pretty …
While the sun shone
The wind is supposed to be really bad this coming week, with gusts over 80mph tomorrow. Sigh. We’ve been making lists of all the things we love about life here, fortunately they are long lists. The wood shed was disturbingly empty so we grabbed the opportunity of spells of sunshine and non gale force winds …
Two days
Been feeling a bit meh the last couple of days and I did start typing a really whiny blog post but actually having just read it back it annoyed even me let alone putting it out there for other people to read, so we’ll move past that. We went down to the school yesterday for …
Meetings meetings everywhere
I had a full board meeting this morning at 9am – a time I am not used to being somewhere for these days ;). So up, out, with travel mug of tea and plenty of layers as the White House (SNH office where meeting was being held) has no heating at the moment and is …
Still goats. And Crafternoon
I made bread dough this morning and finished off the newsletter for the Friends of Rum – a Trust run organisation which anyone can join for a tenner a year, gets them two newsletters a year and various discounts etc. Set up mostly to harvest contact details and get support from various people who love …
Back in the swing
Monday – Ady and I called into the shop in the morning for a few bits and then went along to the schoolhouse as Ady had offered to help Stuart and Julie fit a sofa into their moving van. In the end they had run out of room so decided not to take it but …