I’ll be glad when we have this Development Officer role filled, it’s been two evening meetings, an afternoon and tomorrow will be a whole morning away from the croft so far. Which rather makes a mockery of my promising Ady and the kids being a director again will be less onerous this time…. hmmm. This …
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Slower Sunday
A nice long lie in bed this morning reading restored me no end 🙂 Ady cooked everyone bacon sandwiches for late breakfast / early lunch. Having called a chip sandwich a ‘butty’ on the ferry on Monday the kids are very taken with the word and are now using it in place of sandwich at …
Productivity Slows Down
Everyone is really tired today, don’t really know why but we’ve all been yawning loads. Scarlett and I headed to the village first this morning and opened the shop with Ady and Davies (and Bonnie) following not far behind. Scarlett abandoned me and the shop in favour of Davies but I had various visitors to …
They guide me back to you…
In a bid to let the weeks stop slipping away from us quite so fast we’ve drawn up a Masterplan and divided this years hopes into small chunks. It all feels a bit structured and to-do listy but does mean we are less likely to fritter time and get to feel all smug and productive …
It’s only Wednesday!
But it already feels as though we’ve done a full weeks worth of stuff! Monday – the morning was spent packing stuff up, turning things off and then walking down to the village with Bonnie, all our overnight stuff, all her overnight stuff (including crate, food, bowls etc) and a turkey. It was a lovely …
Still quite slow….
Saturday – Scarletty and I went to work. The shop was a shambles after a bit of a session the night before, it was the contractors last night so they had been partying with various people. Scarlett set to the floor with the mop, I washed up all the cups and cleared the kitchen, taped …
90s dial up speed
A very wet and rainy day. I only briefly popped outside today to get some firewood in a tiny weather break this afternoon. We had a water letting session of our bedroom ceiling this afternoon resulting in 10ltr captured in pans. A real family effort with Davies and I stood on the bed pressing the …
Walking in the rain
I was woken in the middle of the night last night with the thought ‘Ady has the light on’. I quickly added to that thought with ‘and he is standing on the bed dancing’. He infact was not dancing but did indeed have the light on and was standing on the bed as the bulging …
Plans
Today was laundry (two loads, although much of it is still out there currently getting rained on 🙁 ), breadmaking, digging out five galvanised sheets and measuring them to dictate the size of the planned cob chicken house. That took us to lunchtime! Meanwhile Davies and Scarlett were building a lego screen machine for a …
Blah meh
Almost not going to blog today but actually I probably should. Feeling a bit rubbish about stuff today. We have borrowed lots of my Dad of late which he is fine about and keeps reassuring me he can afford and doesn’t mind etc but it’s not how I planned life would be when we moved …
Sunday, Monday
Yesterday we did a couple of loads of laundry and hung it out, had some lunch and then headed off to collect the car from the pier. It was a gorgeous sunny day so it was a slow meander with plenty of pausing to look at the view and talk about the last two years …
work sock puzzle
Saturday so work for me in the morning. Tarly came with me again and we had a nice morning with various islanders calling in. After work we had been expecting Ady to arrive having put the car on charge but he didn’t so we walked to the workshop to meet him. But he and the …
Funny Valentine
Everyone exchanged gifts this morning. I had bought the other three a pack of Cadburys Creme Egg biscuits each. Apparently they are delicious. Davies had made Scarlett a book which went down very well. Ady bought me a bar of posh chocolate from Jinty’s. Well technically he didn’t buy it as he put it on …
Boat, chit chat, more sockage and a cob course
The thread (see what I did there?!) throughout the day was the Sock. I have turned the heel which felt rather like some sort of dark art and am now knitting in the round (also a black magic) before finishing the toe. I may well wear my pants on the outside once I have finished …
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Spinning
We’d planned to do polytunnel stuff this morning but it was way too windy to try and reattach a door so instead we stayed in. Well I did, Ady popped in and out as he does. I had a go at starting a sock making kit I got from Lidl when we were off and …
Rumbles
Another beautiful winter day here on Rum. The light has been fantastic. I walked down to the village at 5pm to put our veg order in and it was stunning. The low sun shimmering on the river and the individual rays of the sun broken up over the ridge. It’s been a mostly indoors day …
Lost evenings
Mean lack of blogging… Friday – we spent the day playing with mud. All outside, all collecting samples. We dug some holes down where we want to build and took some samples. We did various tests with them and deduced the soil was not clay-ey enough for cob building. We had lunch and then sent …
Thursdays child
The new sleeping bag is doing well. It is smaller than our old two zipped together but they were about 6 years old and had been in full time service for the last 3 years in Willow and then here. The one which is still intact (the zips busted on one) is now seeing out …
A day with an axe in hand is a happy one
I know there is nothing I can’t still learn but I do have a private list of things I just wish I already knew, trees and forestry is one of them. If we lived on the mainland I would definitely do some kind of course on forestry and learn more. After Popmaster I was consumed …
Coughs, sneezes, snorers and more coughs
Ady has a horrid cough. I consulted Dr Google last night and found some forum folk suggesting asthma. He always develops a dreadful, unproductive cough after a cold which lingers for weeks and has me fantasising about killing him. Last night he was in bed coughing so I went in and dug out an inhaler …