Scarlett has a cold 🙁 She tends to fall hard, weep and wail and then recover fairly quickly but she clearly feels pretty rough just now. Ady is still coughing. He did stop while we were away but it is back with a vengence and I am not sure whether he has a new cold …
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I really should keep up
I forget what happened otherwise… Erm, Friday…. ah yes. It rained. In the morning Ady and I drove to the pier, dropped off an empty gas bottle, collected a full one, gathered up five sacks of logs, got the car across the river and then came home. The trailer from What-you-wanna-do-Dave has proved fantastically useful, …
Goodbye, don’t cry
Yay the laundry is all done 🙂 well apart from the load which has built up since the last load finished obviously… This morning I hung out the last load which finished yesterday when it was too dark to hang out and have done lots and lots of bringing in and folding up and putting …
Where it’s at
So the big shock news this week was that Mike and Casey are leaving. Casey goes tomorrow – she has a two week trial at a job which she hopes to get offered. They are waiting for final paperwork on renting a house, have handed in their notice on their house here on Rum and …
Where I left off….
Just read back quickly my last post, that all seems a long time ago! In brief then: Saturday & Sunday at Eden was excellent, some amazing people on the event with us, some great speakers, fab food and two fun evenings back at the hotel bar getting to know a handful of people even better. …
Not in Kansas anymore…
Not your normal Monday to Friday…. not even our normal Monday to Friday. Hmmm, normal. Monday was supposed to be a fairly relaxing day with all of the pre- Rum exiting stuff taken care of. But of course life doesn’t pan out like that. Firstly we had a minor crisis of ringing the car hire …
A plan.
So. We can’t possibly do a third winter in the static. A second one has proved challenging beyond words. The fact is that we spent way too much time simply surviving and are actually not moving forward during these winter months. I want our lifestyle of off grid, low impact living but, BUT not at …
Sunday just as I said
Remember that schedule for Sunday about panicking about no one having enough clothes? Tick! Well Davies and Scarlett anyway. Ady and I didn’t even get to our clothes but we are less arsed about being judged on our mud splatted clothing, I feel it just gives us an air of interesting eccentrics which is sort …
Life Laundry
Yes, off island, for ten days! When I organised the Big Lunch back in June I got invited to a Big Lunch Extras workshop thing. I was going to go to the October one but life caught up with us and it just didn’t fit in but managed to get on the January one instead. …
Pickfords Pigs
Today was Pig Move Day. Every time we move the pigs we learn something new, get a bit better, realise we still have not cracked it. First though Ady and I went down to the freezer to get pheasants (from Muck) our for dinner and see if Sandy had any suitable plumbing bits to borrow …
Wood you, wouldn’t you.
Not the day we’d planned, another of those Rum type days where time runs away from you. I had a shower this morning and the water ran out, just as I had lathered up my hair and body and was stood naked and sudsy. Ady had stepped outside so I suspected I would be left …
Down time
Clare sent Ady and I texts this morning to say she was coming back on the ferry today. Davies has been lighting a fire in the yurt twice a week but last time was Wednesday last week so Ady headed down this morning to light a fire and clean up the inevitable puddles (the door …
Aren’t birthdays BRILLIANT?!
I’ve had a truly lovely day 🙂 In a perfect ideal world it would have had a window of about 90 minutes somewhere between 1pm and 3pm where it didn’t rain or look like it might possibly rain in which we could have headed out to the Clearances Stone along the road to Harris and …
Weekend
It’s almost been a weekend off actually. Yesterday morning I went off to work where I had my usual enjoyable couple of hours being Mrs Post. I was patronised by Stuart the headmaster, Emily from the castle, Dave and his brother, Ross and Lesley’s brother Gordon – all heading to the boat to go off, …
Slack Bloggage
I was going to not bother blogging tonight as I have to be up for work in the morning but I notice I signed off my last post by saying I had to be up for work in the morning which means its a whole week. Oops. Last Saturday was a very quiet morning at …
And I’m nearly 40
I remember the bit in When Harry Met Sally when Sally is crying down the phone to Harry and then says ‘and I’m going to be 40…’ Harry asks ‘When?’ aghast. Sally carries on sobbing ‘someday….’ I have 10 days left. I’m going to be 40 someday. Maybe I am getting old. For my birthday …
On the up
I am so cautious about feeling positive incase another big storm comes and takes the roof away but we have had a good few days and all is heading in the right direction. On Saturday morning I worked and it was a good couple of hours, lots of people in, plenty of them stopping for …
Enough of today
I’m so fretful about the pigs 🙁 I feel so guilty that two animals in our care have died. I can make lots of excuses or justifications and I know that in their name we will be better pigkeepers and learn lessons for the future but it utterly sucks that creatures have died in the …
And I’m nearly 40!
Another disturbed night – windtastic til gone 3am. This morning all was calm though. The ferry had been disrupted and was just calling once at 150pm rather than the usual 1135 and 2pm so we were able to listen to Popmaster after all. My dad said to me on the phone last night ‘have you …
more winkles, more wind, bit more whinging….
Winkles are done for this year. We have nearly six full sacks which is pretty good going for 4 days, wish we’d managed to find a contact earlier but it should still bring us a few hundred quid which is going straight in the nissen hut fund to kick start us. They are booked on …
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