This morning I had grand plans to make a little bag for Joss’ birthday present. I cut out the material and got out my sewing machine but it is missing the little foot thing that you feed the material through. No idea if it is here somewhere or go lost along the way but I …
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Order and balance
All restored. 🙂 Still no refund from Maplins but they promise it is coming, parcel from Book People still out but now showing as being returned to supplier, log burner still not collected from supplier but complaining email resulted in a change in courier if it’s not collected tomorrow. No idea where our oilskins are …
Missing in action
A tough few days. The ongoing saga of the returned powerpack from Maplins. The replacement finally turned up after having sat in Inverness for five days. The refund for the returned one has not happened yet despite a flurry of emails back and forth. Hopefully it will happen soon – that’s £50 tied up in …
picking periwinkles in precipitation
Monday – Ady and I cautiously went down to Fliss and Sandy’s waterproofed up and in many layers. We’d not heard from them since Saturday morning despite me emailing Fliss to check everything was ok with them. Fliss came out as we arrived, gave me a kiss for my lovely email and reassured us that …
The weekend
Saturday – Sandy rang us in the morning to apologise for the night before which we assumed meant all was well with them down there. He checked we were still up for going walking on Sunday too. However I met Fliss and Joss walking an hour later and she knew nothing about him ringing and …
Thursday and Friday
Yesterday was a trying to be efficient but still chasing our tails sort of day. Ady and I went to meet the boat at 1135am, taking down one of the batteries (we have 4 batteries; 1 on the pig fence, 1 on the invertor that runs the internet and 1 running the lights and water …
Precipitation
I slept in this morning which was not deliberate but I turned the alarm off and rolled over and the next thing I knew it was way later than I planned to be getting up 😳 I showered, Ady and Scarlett had fed the animals. We all listened to Popmaster and then I went to …
What happened to the last few days
I could have sworn I’d blogged some of it! Sunday – the weather was much better. I can’t remember what else we did but I know we had Sunday lunch at lunchtime and I baked some bread. Everything else has faded into the mists of time. At 3pm I went down to the village to …
Eek
Pancakes for breakfast today, might be the last for a while as all the birds have stopped laying now. Jinty will buy in eggs so there will be some on the island but I’m not sure we’ll bother. It might be nice to view eggs as seasonal produce 😉 Then down to the village. Claire …
Oh missing days
Wednesday – Halloween. In the morning the kids did pumpkin carving with very minimal supervision. Scarlett wanted to do the ‘original jack o lantern’ while Davies did an angry pigs design from his angry birds annual. Both were excellent :). Meanwhile I made some bread and some gingerbread biscuits which I turned over to the …
Otters not included
This morning we went down to the village to join in with Mike’s Coastal Otter Walk. To our surprise we were not the only takers – a family of three (mum, dad, 10yo daughter) and two other women (couldn’t decide if they were a couple or just friends, lovely women though) were also there. For …
And another thing
I like the extra hour. It means I get to feel virtuous about being up early even though I am still actually getting up at my usual slovenly o’clock 🙂 We’re only waiting for stuff to be delivered that would come by the post so didn’t bother going for the ferry today. I did need …
Hour smour
Not even sure what time it is/was/supposed to be when we got up but it was later than usual. Rain had been forecast all day long today but actually a lot fell in the night and the river was running high but today has been showery rather than raining all day. The kids were happy …
Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Oops! Thursday – morning Ady and I walked down to the village to get some money out of the post office (which is just Jinty’s shop open at a different time!). We were just about back in time for Popmaster and then away again to meet the boat. We were hoping for dog food, flour …
Everybody needs somebody
When we arrived here I remember saying to Ady that the people who we first thought were friends would not necessarily be the ones we ended up close to. It’s interesting how different people have taken different lengths of time to warm to us or find connections. We were doing our bad, good, learnt stuff …
Days to clutch to us through the winter
Another gorgeous day here again today. Sun shining, blue skies, lovely autumn colours. We’re being predicted a very cold winter I believe which is all good as far as we’re concerned. It’s endless days of wind and rain I am dreading, although now we feel more secure in the static I guess even those would …
Director
Life eh? Today I became a director of another company and got my official recognition of my self employed status. Not at all sure I have ever been so busy and earned so little! We had plans to sort out the horse box today but the morning rather ran away from us and then it …
Weekend
Saturday – Ady did the first ferry, was there as the sun was coming up. He took some photos and it was beautiful. He got invited on board the Orion which is doing some of the ferry runs. Pete the skipper is full of business ideas so Ady gave him our email address and we’ll …
Chat and crochet
A lie in for everyone this morning after a late night last night. I did a few bits online and then we all left together for the village. Ady, Bonnie and the kids took the car and went to do the ferries – three in today at various times so Ady just stayed down there …
In the interests only of recording daily
I’ll do a quick blog before I head to bed. A fairly laid back morning for everyone with Ady and the kids spending lots of the day outside while I did some cooking. We had Fliss and Sandy coming for dinner so I made Galoka recommended roasted veg rice gratin and some home made garlic …