and in under 48 hours! Yesterday it mostly rained and was windy. We had a couple of breaks in the weather during which Ady went up to check the water pipe in the now very fast running burn and I chopped some wood. We all went outside and gathered some strimmed reeds, rushes and grass …
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Cobwebby Again
What a week (or maybe slightly longer :oops:) We had a good visit from Mum & Dad. I got slightly fed up with them by about day five but they left on day six and I kept Jan’s perspective warning from friendfeed uppermost in my mind so kept my temper. They both looked to have …
Knackered of Rum!
Oh for that cloning machine! Off to school this morning where we were having an Easter event and had invited all the island kids and parents. In the end this only actually meant Davies and Scarlett, Fliss and Ali as Sean and Sandy didn’t come so I sent Ady away and Dave, Sylvia and Andrew …
And there was another week, gone.
Gav and Laura arrived safe, put up their tents (they are sleeping in a bell tent and have a tunnel tent set up as a kitchen / living / storage / decontamination zone), we’ve seen them every day for lunch, dinner, cups of tea or chats. Bonnie and their puppy Finn get on really well …
Back in the game
As in I’m at work skiving and thought I’d update my blogs 🙂 Mad weekend following a mad week – on Saturday morning we went to the boat and off came Sue and Tober from Tombreck who had read an article I wrote in the WWOOFing newsletter about the trials of getting drakes and offered …
Dusty in here!
Argh to not keeping up with blogging! A really busy week last week with work, meetings (vistor management group, RCA, training from a Community Trust bloke who was over and a housing meeting), sorting out the Rumble (newsletter) and getting our heads around housebuild stuff. Blogging is what slipped off the radar. This week has …
three day catch up, sorry Joyce
Sunday morning we all walked into the village in the morning. We saw Lesley and Cara having a pony lesson and Bonnie had some time playing with Sika, Lesley’s dog who is her best doggie friend as Sika still thinks she is a puppy too 🙂 We did a circuitous route to the village and …
Saturday nights alright for barking
My first working week went ok in the end. I think it will work out alright and the commute seems to not be quite as long a walk as I had feared. I can do it in half an hour quite comfortably. I’m not sure how I’ll actually structure my time yet. Coryla is keen …
Frosty February
Still getting the timing wrong for my march to school. This morning I thought I might be cutting it fine, particularly when Bonnie followed me and I had to yell for Ady to come and call her back but I was still there by 910am (I start at 920am) despite dawdling along the coast road …
Well that’s cool
I can’t access friendfeed or facebook but I can blog from work 🙂
New girl
Up and out this morning to school for me. Ady took me in the car as he needed to get it down the croft hill before the hard ground defrosted having come up the hill yesterday morning to load up the three empty gas bottles we had. It was a low key three hours with …
Last day of freedom
Can you tell I am less than excited about the school job? 😉 This morning Ady and I walked down to the village with Bonnie. We bumped into Fliss and Joss, Neil, Claire, Ali & Eve, Jinty and Abby. We also saw James at the castle. That is what I love about living here 🙂 …
Doom sandwich
This morning dawned bright and sunny but also bitterly cold (minus four I think) which meant the gas was frozen. This means it either doesn’t light at all, does light but runs at such a trickle that a kettle with enough water for two cups of tea takes half an hour to boil or it …
Friend in need…
We had Ranger Mike and Thalassa round for dinner last night. Thalassa is an ecology student who was here for a month last summer doing research on the newts that live on Rum. She is lovely and fitted in really well last year with the islanders. She has now finished her Phd and is job …
A lot of neck
Poor Ady has a bad neck. Not sure whether he has pulled a muscle, trapped a nerve or something else but he is in a lot of pain and not sleeping much 🙁 Classic Ady is to not slow down though so while I am trying hard to ensure he does a bare minimum rather …
Interesting Chats
Life is settling back into a rhythm again which is good. I can’t quite see where the school job will fit into that and if I’m honest I am not really looking forward to it starting but I’ll cross that bridge when we get to it and can always re-evaluate if needs be. We’re in …
Consultations and that
The weather continues to remind us how lovely it can be here. We’ve had morning coffees, lunch and afternoon teas on the sporran, sat in t shirts and generally enjoyed this lovely reminder that spring is indeed on it’s way and it doesn’t rain *all* the time. Abby came up for tea and chats on …
It’s been a long long lonely winter
Here comes the sun! And the village springs back to life like an Attenborough documentary about deserts when it rains with people scuttling about being busy, cleaning, chatting to each other, out on bikes, walking… Yesterday was the anniversary of our interview for the croft – one year ago. We bought a drink each and …
broken up and swallowed and….
A Rum week. Not even sure what each day contained really. Closer to Jinty still which has been a hard task but I suspect worth it in the end. Some people are really worth the effort of getting to know. We had pancake races on Tuesday which was lots of fun and very community-ish. I’ve …
Lost weekend on a hillside in Scotland
Ah Lost Weekend, a song that always reminds me of a friend who I don’t think even reads this blog any more. Saturday we met the boat and Paul asked Ady if we were up for an early beer at the shop. We decided we were so at 5pm we fed the animals and all …