Another early start on Wednesday for venison-ing. This hind had several little larvae in it once we’d skinned it which Neil says are pretty common. Ady was quite grossed out by them but I found them pretty fascinating. The kids are really keen to come down and learn more about the whole processing side of …
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Venison
Up far too early (while it was still properly dark!) for venison processing this morning. We left Davies and Scarlett still in bed having whispered goodbyes in their ears and left their breakfast set out. Even the pigs were still in bed so we didn’t feed the animals on our way down to the village. …
In other news
Oh my blogging is woefully boring at the moment. It feels bleak when I moan about the weather or tell tales about crazy Rum folk and that is not a true reflection of life or how we are feeling. It feels smug when I post pretty pictures or gloat about lack of traffic as it …
Rum’s Dark Underbelly
On Saturday night after I’d blogged I had a facebook chat with Fliss telling me about a fight that had kicked off down at the hall. All hearsay but the gist of it is that James (seasonal castle staff, someone I have never liked for an indefinable reason despite all his best efforts to ingratiate …
Catching up again
Where were we? Ah yes, wondering if we’d last the night. Well we did – I went to bed around 1am and it was actually a fair bit quieter in the bedroom as the wind was westerly so the lounge end was taking the beating. Ady stayed up though and came to bed around 3am. …
Wild winds
The boat came today but only here to Rum and stayed docked while the removal van for Dave and Lynda came off, was loaded up and got back on again. Ady and I went down to help and between about 10 of us we had the whole van loaded up within an hour. What’s going …
Day off anyone?
Saturday morning we did laundry, met the boat, called in for a cup of tea at Fliss and Sandy’s and then came home for lunch. The weather had a break in the rain so we walked down to the village to drop Davies and Scarlett off with Sandy and Joss to watch films while Ady …
Burns Night
Friday – Burns Night 🙂 In the morning Ady stayed home to do various tidying up and sorting out stuff indoors while I took Davies and Scarlett down to the school for a J Ranger event. Due to lots of politics and quibbling Mike had decided to combine J Ranger with taking the little ones …
Still no snow
But the rain’s back! Which is good because our water butts were both empty after possibly our longest stretch here without rain so we were close to needing to gather water from the burn for washing up and showering which starts to become hard work. Yesterday Ady went off to do some work at Norman’s …
Sporran of dreams
Ady’s been doing some work down at Fliss and Sandy’s clearing their back garden the last two days which means the kids and I have had lovely mornings at home reminding us of Home Ed days of old :). Yesterday we read for ages and finished My Side of the Mountain which we all loved. …
Sunday
Ady went down to the village first this morning to give Steve and Claire a hand moving some firewood from one end of the village to the other. We have a wee trailer lent to us from Chainsaw Dave (who I’ll henceforth refer to as Chain as everyone else does) which meant it was a …
Friday and Saturday
Yesterday we went down to the village in the morning – just Ady and I, the kids were relishing the chance to stay home and play, having had far too many interruptions this week. We talked house designs with Sandy and Karl and then came home for lunch. I’m reining in a little on house …
It’s another 2 day catchup
I’ve been fiddling with a website for croft3.co.uk which I bought a while ago but had not decided what I wanted to use it for until now. After thinking about stuff for the isleofrum.com website we decided to do some camping here on the croft this summer as there is just such a huge demand …
I live by the river
I went along to the school this morning to get a head start on what goes on there in the clerical job. The short answer is ‘not a lot’. Fliss probably spends less than half an hour in any one 3 hour shift actually doing work to do with the school and the rest of …
Sunday, Monday, losing track
Yesterday morning we collected firewood. We’d gotten behind in our firewood and instead of collecting every day and bringing it in to dry out infront of todays fire ready for tomorrow we’ve been mostly burning wood that is still too damp. This means the fire is hard to get going, cokes up the flue and …
Back in the swing
The mainland feels like a dim memory already! Yesterday morning I went down to the school to drop in my ID for the disclosure (like CRB check) forms. It all seems very slow and I am not in any great hurry to rush things through but I imagine at some point I will finally start …
Mainland
Back home again 🙂 Monday – we left on the 2pm ferry and despite our fears that Bonnie may be in season again and the lack of return phonecall from the holiday cottage when we were sure they’d said they’d ring us nearer the time to confirm our arrival time everything went smoothly and according …
39. Not out.
Not old yet. Only 4 years older than my Dad was when he had me and definitely still not a grown up. But the mirror says time is taking a toll and even though my children are small for their age they are definitely creeping up past my shoulder height… I lazed in bed this …
Catching up
I think it was Tuesday I last blogged…. the rest of the week has gone in the usual blur really. We’ve done washing, met boats, ticked stuff off our pre-off island visit job lists. We had a mammoth creating the next three months action plan session and have been working our way through things that …
Thursday the third
This time next week we’ll be back! We’re looking forward to going off, it’ll be fab to have beds without mold patches, baths, power, realised today we’ll be there for the next episode of Africa to watch on the big screen in the holiday cottage. I’m looking forward to the novelty of supermarket shopping and …