Work for both Ady and I yesterday morning. Post Office was quiet – Norman came early and stayed the whole time which was tedious as I wanted to chat to other people and he monopolises me. Fliss came in quickly before the boat and said that it was Stuart & Julie’s last day as they …
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Still not interesting
Boring as it may be I am adamant I am fighting this cold off properly and not wearing myself out. Sleeping in a very cold, very damp room with no bath and other home comforts means a simple cold can turn into something more sinister here really easily. So I’m heading to bed early every …
Not very exciting and quite snot filled
All yesterday afternoon I was dreaming about home made soup and freshly baked rolls so this morning that’s what I made. And it was good. So good I had two bowls of soup and three rolls. So, so medicinal! 🙂 Ady and I went to meet the boat which came against all odds – we …
Catching up on Rum stuff
Friday – erm… I genuinely have no idea at all what we did. There would have been some firewood processing, I have no idea what else. I do recall heading down to the village to get pepperoni for pizza and beer for Ady and collect the keys for the shop ready for the following morning. …
Mainland part three
Really need to catch up otherwise I’ll be catching up on Rum stuff too… Sunday – having ascertained that there was NO public transport at all on the Sunday we were rather scuppered for collecting D&S from Outward Bound. We had gotten a quote from a taxi for the trip (6 miles) and it was …
Further mainland catchupiness
I got to Wednesday didn’t I… That was Zoo Day. I’m sure I’ve blogged before over the years about my feelings on zoos. I like the conservation work they do and as the parent of a child who is all about the animals I do love the opportunity that UK zoos have afforded Scarlett particularly …
Epic Mainland Catchup – part one
Saturday – up early ready to head off on the 1135 ferry. We had packed everything on the Friday night and done all last minute preparations. We planned to leave home at 10am incase of non starting cars or last minute glitches. Davies and Scarlett set off with Bonnie on the lead, Ady and I …
Cold of Rum
Venison processing today. I had plans for the morning before I followed Ady down (Ady and Neil skin the beast first, I get there an hour or so after them once there is meat to start processing and packing) but internet related stuff got in the way. There appears to be a problem with my …
Ready for the off…
Three more sleeps… We were interrupted during Popmaster this morning, the first we’ve listened to live this week by Bad Neil arriving. He came in for two cups of tea and 90 minutes of chatting – I guess we won’t get to do that on Saturday morning so it was probably nice to do it …
Meeting Fatigue
It’s been a stressy few days thanks to some director stuff which has been endlessly debating, whirling round my head, discussed in emails and generally distracting me.  This morning I walked down to the post office for some shopping and to post a parcel, caught up with Lesley for a quick chat, had a chat …
Imbolc
The moon is so bright this week it has been like daylight outside every night. It’s weird, night falls and it gets dark but the moon then rises and it gets light again. Ady has been cleaning Marcel’s old house today (and will be again tomorrow). It needs a good old clear up before the …
Yay, it’s Feburary!
A lovely day here, there were flurries of snow, but loads of sunshine, beautiful blue skies and a real feel of the promise of spring in the air. I spent hours chopping wood, which is quite my favourite thing to do, second only to planting out seeds or bimbling around in the polytunnel, or feeding …
Fannyless Friday :)
Poor Ady was so filled with rage he couldn’t sleep last night. In our very tiny barely qualifies as a double bed this means neither of us gets any sleep. He got up just after 430am which at least meant I got to spread out and snore. This morning we did  couple of hours of …
Thursdays beer is a rage quenching one
Off to the ferry this morning as we were expecting amazon stuff. As we hit the bridge so Manager Mike was hurtling towards us. Can’t be arsed to explain all the back story but basically he was flapping once again about something he should have organised and managed ages ago, left to the last minute …
Wednesday
This morning was all about the firewood. Mostly in the hail. Which really hurts when it whips you against the cheek, or the bit of upper leg which is exposed from your ripped leg jeans.  Ady and I just kept yelling to each other ‘Good to be ALIVE!!!!’ over the sound of the hail though …
Tuesday
I was reading in bed when Ady said ‘Nic, Nic, people are coming!’ and dashed outside this morning. To be fair it was long past 9am but it was raining and it was warm and cosy in bed. So I dashed around getting dressed while he went out and headed them off. It was Steve …
Catching up catch up post and shit (gangster style)
Oops, behind again. Friday – we did some houseplot digging. Just a couple of hours and it’s slow going but we were out there doing nonetheless. I made pizza dough and the plan was to have dinner all sorted and eaten before we went. Unfortunately despite best intentions I foolishly cooked the bread first while …
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Ferry, flat tyre, something else beginning with F I can’t think of…
Today was always going to be a bit of a write off in terms of getting much done. We needed to meet the 1135 boat to get our petrol, visit the shop for various bits, I had a meeting from 1pm and Davies had a doctors appointment at 3pm which one or other of the …
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Goddard Woodmizer Processing Station
I was up, down to the village to post Lovefilm and collect some bits from the freezer all before Popmaster this morning. For me that is an early start 😉 I’d not even had a cup of tea! It then rained solidly all morning so I spent some time online, updated our WWOOF host listing, …
Up and down
I had an indoors morning today; making bread dough, flat bread dough, pastry, cookies, cooking the meat for a steak pie. Then assembling said steak pie, rolling out and cooking said flatbreads for lunch. All while chatting to Scarlett about animals, looking at her Animalia book and her Nat Geo magazines and talking about animals and …