No ferry again today. It was pretty blowy first thing and we’ve had loads more hail, thunder and lightning all day but the wind calmed down by this afternoon sufficiently to release the wind turbine. Post Office was semi-busy. Trudi, Steve, Bad Neil, Fliss, Norman, Derek and Vikki all came in – various stopping for …
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Weather bomb survivor – so far
About to head off to bed, still pretty noisy but it was a shit nights sleep last night and I am Mrs Post in the morning so hoping to do some sleeping. I think the worst is over. I will tentatively say that although it has been crazy windy it has not felt that …
Work. And wind.
Arctic weather bomb! I *love* the sound of that, even more exciting than last years polar vortex. The wind came in around 3am – I was aware of it and only slept fitfully from then. Up for work this morning and it was oranges (full on oil skin waterproofs) down to the village to do …
Working 10 til 12
It would not get Dolly singing really would it? But it was a pretty full on 2 hours shift this morning. No boat on Saturday, a promised rescheduled boat yesterday not happening and close proximity to Christmas with threats of no more boats for the rest of this week meant *everyone* was wanting to post …
Weekend
Saturday – Scarlett’s birthday 🙂 Up not too early at about 730am for present opening. It was  a really dark drizzly morning that didn’t actually get properly light until about 930am so it felt earlier though.  Scarlett was thrilled with all her pressies and set about setting her hudl2 up and then connecting with Davies …
Friday
will blog today when it has all happened! Yesterday was a typical day before a birthday day (Alison – remember when we stayed up til crazy morning o’clock every single time before a kids party and then staggered through them all glazed eyed and manic?!) where I had left some things to the last …
Tolerance!
Oops, mistakenly posted this on wondering wanderers – hope no one saw it!! Bloody teachers! 😉 I worked at post office this morning – a swapped shift as I am not working on Saturday as it’s Scarlett’s birthday. How did my baby get to be 12?! 😯 I had my usual trickle of folk …
Here and there…
Sorry Helen (who commented, and anyone else who read) but yesterdays post seems to have gone! Lost in the transition period. Along with all blogpost from March this year, so I guess one more isn’t the end of the world. I can more or less recall what it said – lots of digging! The housesite …
Woe of blogs
I *think* I’m back. I appear to have lost everything between March and now but in the scheme of things that is liveable with and far preferable to losing everything which looked like it may be the case earlier in the week. Gulp. Fortunately I have not blogged much on here this year really anyway, …
Home, home on the croft
I had foiled shower this morning – just as I had put conditioner on my hair and lathered up the rest of my body the water ran out 🙁 There is a vent in the roof of the shower so it is never a nice experience being in there on a windy or rainy day …
Equinoxal Gales
Wild weather here today although it started really calm this morning to the extent I thought about doing a load of laundry. Glad I didn’t as it would now be being blown all over the croft getting wet and muddy. In the end I had an indoors day – I ran all sorts of anti …
Sunday, Monday
Erm…. yesterday morning I didn’t get my lie in because it was super windy and the charge controller for the wind turbine caught fire 🙁 It is supposed to have a brake which obviously didn’t kick in so I have emailed the supplier to see if they will replace it but their customer service feedback …
Clumsy of Kinloch
I’ve been all uncoordinated and clumsy today. I made cock ups at the post office, spilled a load of milk, have my period and maybe a sore throat but maybe not. I think I’m just tired. I’ve read a couple of haunting books this week – one about concentration camps and another about a ‘sliding …
Trenches and that
A pretty productive week again with the cob chicken house trench dug and draining really well. Next week we’ll fill it all in with gravel and drainage pipe and then we’ll be ready to start building – first is a metre high stone wall before we start with the actual cob bit. We’ve done lots …
Outside Again
A splendid start to the week 🙂 All the laundry done, the fruit cage door fixed and all the netting removed tidying it up, my raised beds with garlic in all re netted so everything growing is now chicken and turkey proof – yay! Although I did find five chickens in the polytunnel tonight so …
Finally got outside!
Have felt most outdoors deprived of late. I worked this morning at post office – Scarlett came down with me but Davies appeared an hour later with some cash so they bought some sweets and wandered off to play. I had a nice morning chatting to various people and selling stamps. I found the kids …
Oh Ranger!
I hate conflict. I find it so draining that I feel physically exhausted by it. This week I have dealt with the lead up to, execution of, and aftermath of a discplinary hearing, been copied in on a really stroppy email about not moving things in the hall and finally today heard two sides (always …
Busy with busyness
Yesterday morning I walked along to Ali’s to prepare for a disciplinary hearing. It went smoothly in the end but was stressy and horrid and one of those things you’d really rather just not be part of. I came home for lunch and in the afternoon Ady and I went and collected some firewood from …
Knackered of Rum
Work for me this morning and it was the most frantic post office shift I’ve ever done. There were special deliveries, postage to all over the place, people buying in the shop, folk coming for cups of tea and chats and a million things inbetween. Ady met me and we took our veg home with …
Duck, duck, goose
Up early (for me) for me this morning and away down to the village for interviewing. We saw the three candidates and as we’d hoped by the end of the morning we had a clear and unanimous decision on the successful one. All three were very strong and gave good interviews but one just stood …