Yesterday was crazy windy and Ady was not happy leaving Davies and Scarlett home alone, I didn’t think getting them up early and dragging them out was a good plan either so we compromised with just him going winkle picking. I got up and decided that was mad and if there were winkles to be …
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Silver Bells
Yesterday I mostly just enjoyed properly feeling better. I spent some time sorting out the storage area under the sofa and filling up jars and tubs with pasta, rice, flour, seeds and so on. I made pastry and left it to chill, finished off the Rumble and then went down to do a phone / …
Knock me down
Just as we thought the challenge was over…. on Monday we met the ferry on which there was nothing for us at all, put our veg order in and then I had to go back down in the evening for a run through of the interview questions for the Bunkhouse Project Manager job for the …
Birthday, Christmas shopping, relax
The wind is back. Not scary wind, just noisy and taunting us by making the wind turbine whizz round noisily while creating no power. We’ll try and take it down maybe tomorrow. Scarlett had a lovely birthday – after such a bad nights sleep the night before we were very relieved when everyone slept in …
Well?
What a week. ‘What you wanna do’ Dave and Quiet Naomi have been here lots. Dave continues to be annoying but very kind hearted and generous which is an odd mix as it makes you feel both irritated and guilty. Eilidh and Scarlett have failed to find any sort of connection while Davies is visibly …
Knackered to pieces
Up early (for me) this morning to be organised. Oven on, bread rolls shaped from dough made last night straight in. Pastry made, mince pies in the oven in rotation, veg peeled, chopped and bagged up for soup making down at the hall, cake decorated and everything loaded up ready to take to the car. …
Never thought I’d say it…
Yesterday morning was dealing with the aftermath of high winds during the night. We’d lost our washing line – totally our own fault for not bringing in some laundry which had gotten wet and therefore heavy in the rain and then whipped about in the wind so much that the fence post had snapped that …
The Collective
Interesting few days. Yesterday morning Ady and I went to the school to collect some card from Stuart so Davies could turn his postcards into Christmas cards. We stayed for a chat for about an hour, I’d forgotten how much of a talker Stuart is :). Ady headed back home while I went for a …
Pay attention!
The sink in the bathroom was slow to drain last night and this morning so Ady spent some time sorting that out – it had a minor blockage. The kids played with Playmobil and Lego and then connected on consoles as the wind was blowing lots so we had internet all day. I tidied up …
Where is that wind?
Saturday morning work for me, Scarlett came too and we had a busy morning – Tarly counted 14 customers which meant most of Rum came in I think! Ady and Davies watched Shaun of the Dead which Davies has been desperate to watch for about 2 years. Then Ady came down and met the boat …
Kiss and make up
Yesterday morning Scarlett and I made a 3d tiger puzzle that my Mum had given her and then it was ferry o’clock. Ady and I went down together and collected stuff – our Asda order came along with 10 cartons of milk we’d ordered through Jinty. We grabbed that and then Ady whizzed me along …
Snow day
After getting utterly fed up with the hours the kids, Davies in particular are keeping in getting up later and later I have started getting me and the kids up by 9am. I know this is still pretty late by most standards but it is only just daylight by 8am and given it’s been more …
No phone, no pool, no pets
Well actually no petrol, no post, no gas because none of them came on the ferry today. This morning Davies and I looked at uploading and ordering Christmas cards of his latest design to sell and worked out what he would price them at and how many he should buy. He has £60 from his …
Popcorn in teeth
A mad start to the morning when I got up for a wee intending to head back to bed to read for a while only to learn that the cancelled boat from yesterday which was coming here today to make up for it had been rescheduled again and was coming in 2 hours earlier than …
Melted Ice Cream
This week the weather was supposed to be really bad on Thursday, we anticipated cancelled ferry, static blown down the hill, general Rum apocalypse etc so I didn’t place the CoOp order we were rather desperate for on Wednesday. But you know what, the boat came anyway! True it only came once instead of the …
Guru
Another mostly indoors watching ‘stuff’ day today. I LOVE having older children with their sense of humour, ability to gauge what’s going on and act accordingly and just be interesting people to hang out with. We don’t spend as much time just being with each other as I’d like, particularly given none of us actually …
Evacuating snowflakes
Yesterday was a lovely winter Rum day, just how I was expecting it to be living here in the winter last year but wasn’t. We had the internet on all day as it was super windy, got everything charged up, the kids watched some stuff online and then we all listened to Operation Pied Piper, …
Tuesday, talk to Julie
After Popmaster Ady and I went down to the village – we collected post (a new pillow for me) from yesterday and I picked up the Rumble (newsletter) from the office. Then to meet the boat. Ali came and sat in the car for a chat with me while we waited for it to come …
Howling
Yesterday was a little frustrating as we planned to get all the laundry done but there was no one at the castle to get washing machine tokens from so I was only able to process one load (I do bulk buy them but at £2.50 each I don’t want to tie up more than a …
Come hail and high water
I woke this morning to see Hallival topped with snow. I heard today that meterologists are predicting the coldest winter in 100 years. Bring it on – cold and dry is a whole lot better than warm and wet as far as we’re concerned. Scarlett decided not to come to work with me but stayed …