Friday – I think in the morning we finished planting the fruit bushes in the fruit cage finally. We have more than enough blackcurrants and redcurrants even if they don’t all survive the move, we have a fair few gooseberries too, but only 3 of Pthe raspberry canes were even find-able and I’m fairly sure …
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Things that make you go hmmmm
This morning I assumed Domestic Goddess status and made bread, rolls, soup and banana cakes while Ady did some H&S for the hall. After lunch I went down to do crochet at Fliss’ with Fliss and Casey. As tends to be our thing I went back to Casey’s for a cup of tea and a …
So far this October
Yesterday I mostly spent lots of time sewing up the netting which covers the fruit cage imagining myself to be like a fisherman mending nets. At one point Ady came down and managed to chase a couple of turkeys in who then flew to try and get out and ripped a bit I’d just mended. …
He marched them up to the top of the hill….
We’d planned to make the most of the lovely weather we’re forecast for today and tomorrow so I checked with Ali whether there was much rut action at Kilmory yet. Word is that it’s still a little early and next week will see more happening although the ‘big boys’ are assembling according to Martin from …
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Saw no one
This morning Ady and I walked down to the freezer to stick in the fish that Ian bought up last night and all the brambles I picked yesterday. Then we had a long walk and picked a load more to make jam with. We took Bonnie and left D&S here drawing and lego-ing. Home for …
Thank you for the days
I love that people on Rum now call Kirsty McColl ‘poor dead Kirsty’. Clearly I wish she were not dead but I love that our own brand of catchphrases has now entered RumSpeak. It’s been a meetingtastic week, very busy and at times fraught. On Wednesday it was the Full Board meeting and the EGM …
Tuesday
The days are getting so much shorter. Sunrise is stunning over the sea at about 730am and by 730pm it is being stunning in the opposite chunk of sky. 12 hours is still a fair bit of daylight really given we’ll shrink to about half that in the coming three months but winter is closing …
teenagers, guests, angst and that
Far too long to try and catch up. Davies had a birthday -teenager at last. Feels both utterly momentous and totally non eventful and run of the mill birthdayish. He asked for and got mostly lego. A Rum friend commented that when they were 13 they still played with lego loads but in a furtive …
Sunscreen
Ady spent most of today on the phone trying to sort out an upgrade on his mobile. We rather stupidly had not changed our address on our contract phones and had been on the road back in 2011 when last we upgraded so just went into the nearest shop at the time. Hence Ady did …
Further social
Monday morning I had a meeting down in the village with Ali. In theory it was to talk about infrastructure but various things kicking off on the directors agenda meant we got side tracked into dealing with some other stuff aswell including calling in to see Mike and Casey in an official directors capacity. We …
Social
Friday was a rainy day. Inbetween showers I chopped some more firewood and Ady strimmed around the pig fence. We’re currently researching micro hydro vs wind turbine so Ady did some more research and learning on that. I’ve been making friendship bracelets as I made a few to put in the craft shop and they …
Porpoise Fatigue
Its been showery today so we’ve been dodging the rain while trying to get stuff done. This morning we got nine tin sheets up to the static ready for the wood store before breaking for Popmaster. I made a picnic and then we walked down to the village to collect the car before the Shearwater. …
Graft
I didn’t sleep well as I had two unfinished things on my mind along with another thing playing on my mind last night. To that end once I’d got up and had a shower this morning I decided to head to the village to sort them out. Ady came with me : The first was …
Too much
of everything, but quite specifically wine to post a proper lucid blog post but as I am filled with good intentions I will do something in note form. Awake earlyish (for me) to feed the animals as Ady was off to the larder to process venison. It is quite literally like a zoo with chaos …
Hello the mainland
Bloody blimey the real world is a crazy full on place! And that was just Oban! Last Monday morning had me at a skype meeting with the architect design team for the community bunkhouse, then home for lunch and last minute packing. In the middle of all that I had an email from the car …
Paved with good intentions
Over a week? Surely not. Not even going to attempt to catch up day by day then. Weather – a mix of sunshine and rain, just like any other ten day period on Rum really. Midges have been having their last hurrah and out in force whenever the weather conditions conspire to make it suitable …
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
Friday – Ady and I spent the day helping Gav and Laura mostly. We’d agreed to go over to Croft 2 for some concrete mixing at 9ish so having fed our animals and checked on the new chicks we headed over there. The first task was bringing up a big box they have built six …
Community
This morning Ady was helping Gav move lots of parts of their house that has been arriving over the last few weeks. It alternated between midgey and rainy so the kids and I hung out indoors. I had a couple of pressing things to do online (actually I have more than a couple but I …
I can do this daily thing
really I can! Mad busy Wednesday today. This morning I got stuff ready to take down to Market day and labelled up the herbs I’d picked and dried through the week. I had a plan to sell them for £1 a pack which feels a little like daylight robbery really but I thought it would …
Ten days of sanity
Hmm, the ten day thing is not great blogging. A mad, mad week last week. Wednesday was Market Day which had me sitting with Ali selling stuff and Ady round at Sandy’s on the phone to the doctor persuading him that Sandy needed to be collected from the island and taken to the mainland for …