I slept in til past 10am today which is crazy late even for me. I must have needed it. Today we have finished sewing mesh to the sides and top of the bird cages so that the ducklings are protected and we are ready for collecting a mother hen and her chicks from Jinty and …
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Ten days with the crazies
which has since turned into 11 and gotten oh so much crazier but I liked the intended title for last nights blog post so I’m sticking with it! Not going to attempt to catch up really so will do some soundbites. Mum & Dad – had a great visit. Five days and nights. As ever …
Markets
Market Day today so after Popmaster Ady and I loaded up the car to head down to the village. Ady set off ahead of me as I was still sorting the kids out and faffing with floats and notepads and pens. He met me coming back to help carry some of the large load I …
Angel or fairy?
One of the people that I was distracted by yesterday was a woman who came along with Neil, who wants to live here with his wife Grace and may one day do so if their bunkhouse project ever happens. He didn’t introduce her but we chatted and she said ‘nice to meet you’ as they …
Laundry Day
I remember telling Ady and the kids way back at the start of our WWOOFing year that I’d like to do without a washing machine and return to the olden times of having a day a week as laundry day. I can safely say that of all the modern conveniences I miss a washing machine …
Whispers of winter
After we got in last night the wind started howling and hasn’t really stopped since. It reminded me of the nights in winter when that was all it did night after night and I didn’t sleep well. Today is has been rainy showers, plenty of wind and the odd half hour of sunshine. It’s cold …
Yawnarama
Tired and cold so need to go to bed but trying hard not to lapse with the daily blogging. Not a lot day today really – this morning I looked at some stuff with Davies online on maps of the Small isles. He’s been commissioned to do some postcards of Eigg by someone so has …
Social meedya innit
Last day at school. Woo hoo, hurrah and yipee. It was all most anti climaxical really, which is good I think, I’d far rather that than anything else. I spoke to Stuart twice, set up an out of office reply on my email to say ‘please be aware I no longer work for Rum Primary’, …
Leaving and coming back again
After this morning’s upset I spent the time at work slightly agog. I then got an email to say the meeting I was at this afternoon which meant I couldn’t go on the Sheerwater and therefore Ady and the kids had decided not to go either had been put back to 3pm which meant we …
Oops, fallen off again!
A later night than planned getting home last night meant I ate dinner, watched The Apprentice, listened to Popmaster and went to bed rather than doing any online stuff. School was the usual three hours of finding things to do, ever conscious that as soon as I leave I will recall all sorts of things …
Stag-gering
The croft is stag tastic at the moment. Last night Ady and I watched a pair mosey past the static at a very close distance and leisurely pace, today there was another down at the riverside watching us for ages. Ady and the kids left me reading in bed this morning as they went down …
Last Monday feeling like a weekend
As of next Monday it will just be a Monday like any other rather than the day before I’m back for another week of school shifts. I was woken far earlier than I planned getting up by Bonnie leaping on the bed but managed to get back to sleep. I’d been having a vivid dream …
It’s a discipline is what it is!
Me, here again, within 24 hours. I’m determined to get back into daily blogging. Today was Community teashop Sunday number one. It’s a multi purpose initiative this. Firstly its fundraising as we need £10k to fix woodworm in our village hall. We already have nearly half and have been coming up with various ideas to …
Lunar blogger
Not at all sure how I ended up being a monthly blogger. I even miss blogging daily, I have a gap in my day where my 15 minutes spewing out my thoughts and accounts of the day used to be. Not a hope of catching up properly so will endeavour to do it in brief …
Mojo. Gone.
The blogging discipline seems to have just upped and gone. Not sure why, it’s not as though things don’t happen and I can’t even pretend I don’t have internet access when I sit at the school for 3 hours four mornings a week doing nothing but online stuff. Chris and Julie had a good visit …
April 25th? That was *aaaages* ago
It’s Friday morning. The school office is really cold and dark and miserable. Since I handed my notice in I have not had even one single second of doubt that it was the right thing to do. I should really enjoy these three hours four times a week to myself, with internet access. I should …
Interesting conversations
It’s lovely having Lynda and Stuart here and Fliss and Sandy are away til tomorrow so we’ve been left in charge of breakfasts for them in return for using the house all day including for dinners which has been great. Electricity! TV for the kids! A great big kitchen to cook for six people in …
Hey Joyce!
We used to be *so* much funnier! Just found this http://quickquickslow.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/12-twelves-are/#comments
How did we all get so slack at blogging?
I blame facebook! Or something 🙂 What’s been happening? Davies and Scarlett have been doing some maths workbooks I picked up from the school. Davies hated them, got the idea of what the book was asking but found them tedious, repetitive and pointless once he’d grasped the concept. Scarlett really enjoyed them, particularly one using …
Back 2 skool
Just when we thought the winter was over it’s been back to bite us on the bum again this week. Literally as the boat pulled away on Saturday night it started raining and got windier and it’s not really stopped much since. The winds have been SSE rather than easterly or westerly which are the …