Did some houseplot digging today. 🙂 Yay and hurrah and stuff. It’s been glorious here all day – dry, sunny and all pretty sparkling off the last remaining snow. The high peaks look like skiing holiday brochures! This morning I had a lie in, despite Ady’s best efforts to make me get up. There was …
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Tea and talking
Work this morning for both Ady and I. Neither of us worked very hard ;). Ady officially worked for 4 hours but he spent at least one doing our own laundry, another going to the ferry and probably a further 90 minutes wandering around the village trying to get the Jeep to start and arranging …
Snow day
Ady scared me this morning by getting out of bed, opening the curtains and saying ‘Oh my God!’. I assumed there was a slew of dead croft creatures or part of the caravan we’d not heard blowing off during the night but it was snow. Not loads, not really. But loads by Rum standards. He …
Not out.
As in, I didn’t go out today. I did go to the wood shed and collect four buckets of wood but that barely counts. Another wild and windy night with plenty of lying awake – some more thunder and lightning and roof rattling. Despite best efforts the last of the polytunnel plastic blew away. Ady …
How much longer?
I feel like someone who is going out with the coolest of all the cool boys at school who is way out of my league. You know it can never last so instead of enjoying it you spend the whole time just fretting about how it will end instead. 70mph winds forecast for 3am, it’s …
Enforced Productivity
It’s hard to get motivated. I really want to be outside digging the house plot. But it is so cold outside that within five minutes you can’t feel your fingers or your toes, it’s so windy your hat keeps getting blown off and any loose clothing flaps around, it hails every 15 minutes and, well, …
What a week!
Can’t believe that this time last week was only a week ago. Goodbye to Big Dave, my birthday, crazy wild weather, a night away from the static, a late birthday meal down at Mike & Debs and more crazy wild weather. Friday night was another wild one in the caravan, no further damage but a …
Gales
We tend to front out the weather here. Ever since the first winter when someone scoffed ‘well that caravan won’t still be sat on that hill by the end of the winter’ we have had a certain sense of bravado about staying put and proving everyone wrong. We are nothing if not bloody minded sometimes, …
I’m 41 you know :)
and had an incredibly fabulous time celebrating the fact! 🙂 I was up earlyish yesterday and Ady was feeling loads better which was excellent, I was starting to fret about him a tiny bit. Â It was a gorgeous day weather wise – cold but almost dry all day, no real wind and lots of sunshine …
The last blog post of 40
AKA jump, jump, jump, it’s my birthday tomorrow 🙂 Ady is feeling better today, still rather weak and was not up to eating much until dinner time but is definitely on the up – hurrah! We walked down to the village this morning, to collect some bits from post office and see if Jinty was …
Ill Ady
Poor Mr G is still poorly, generally feeling rough, very tired and with added diarrhoea 🙁 He is insisting on going outside to the compost loo so I am spending ten minutes each time worrying about whether he is ok out there. He spent most of today asleep on the sofa and says he feels …
January so far…
Yesterday we had arranged to help Big Dave at the cabin, so after feeding animals we headed over there in time for Popmaster. On the agenda was fixing the ceiling panels. We had a cup of tea and then made a start. Predictably it was not straightfoward and before lunch we had just about got …
Erm…
So… 2015 and that. Think I got up to Monday. Tuesday… ah yes, we went to the boat, as expected animal feed came off along with some amazon food orders. I know the world hates amazon and anyone with any ethics at all would never buy from them because they are worse than nestle or …
Festive Slacking
Saturday – work for us both in the morning. Ady ended up only working for just over an hour as the heating and hot water is off in the hostel as the boiler is broken so he appeared round at the shop with Ross by 11am. I had brought Bonnie down with me and put …
Christmas 2014
Christmas Eve – we promised the kids we would not do anything other than festive stuff. Ady did head down to the castle to collect a load of washing we had done the day before and stuck in the tumble drier but he was back with that before the rest of us were up. Â Scarlett …
Missed a bit
Oops, didn’t realise I’d missed so many days. Which of course means I can’t recall everything in detail, ah well. Ady and I both worked Saturday morning, we met the ferry which was delayed but did come in. Big Dave came off, so we took his stuff along and then walked down to the village …
Last boat?
I remember last year (and probably the year before too) the ‘last boat’ panic that sets in on the islands. As the inevitable December weather disrupts things people get all stressy about getting off Rum for Christmas if that is what they are planning and start obsessively checking the weather and predicting cancelled ferries. We …
When they were in they were in…
I’ve had  a lovely day today, a real return to the run up to Christmasses past just being in the same space as the kids while they got on with their stuff and I got on with mine. I do miss that easy companionship with them sometimes as we are all off doing our own …
Apples In
This morning we went down to the post office to get Ady’s faulty spade sent back. This has been slightly epic in that a spade from Amazon didn’t last very long at all so I emailed them and they sent out a replacement but asked for the faulty one to be sent back. Which is …
Rehab required!
We had a boat on Friday to cover the cancelled one and most of the Christmas post we were waiting on turned up on it. Friday seems so long ago I can’t remember what else we did. Oh, I made a candle with Scarlett for her secret santa gift to Jinty. Davies finished his picture …