Our static has a skirt. Or maybe now we’re in Scotland it could be a kilt! 😆 I took Davies and Scarlett down to meet Mike this morning for some more bird ringing. I dropped them off and nipped to the castle to stick a wash on, then back to them. They had already caught …
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Quick!
I have not been distracted by photo hunting for the 50 things blog post, I have posted on the other blog, I have been a very good mother and wife and crofter and made moves towards other stuff on my job list. And having been up since 7am (still dark, still bloody cold and still …
Sunday and Monday
Ive gotten into a tangle with online stuff – I have a really long list of things I want / need / really must do and with limited online time I end up doing none of it and aimlessly filling time instead. Must be more disciplined about working through stuff in chunks but don’t want …
Friday and Saturday
Yesterday morning was wet again but we had wood to collect. Billy, the builder who has been doing work on the castle roof since before we arrived here (we sat and chatted to him in the kitchen when we came over for our interview, he helped us with loaning his mats to get the static …
A week went by…
And it gets really hard to get back into the groove again, particularly when I have two blogs to be trying to catch up on. Thursday – we had arranged for Chris and Julie to come up to us in the morning. Ady and I were doing something outside – quite what now escapes me …
Cloning
This morning Ady and I left the four kids still in bed with breakfast all laid out for them and went down to the larder. First thing we did some more sausage making – definitely got the hang of that now :). We did some dicing, mincing, weighing out and bagging up. Then we cleaned …
Sausages
Ady and I left the kids to it this morning and headed down to the larder. We were cutting up the haunches and boning out the ribs this morning. We’ll never remember all those cuts and will have to watch the dvd lots of times before getting our heads round what we’re doing. We finished …
Goodbye, hello, take your skin off!
Another manic Monday Rum style! We went to the castle this morning to spend a last few hours with Lynda and Stuart. The kids, Bonnie and I walked to the ferry while they went in the car with Ady. We got a proper look at the waiting room at the pier which had interpretation boards …
Not so fast
Failed on the daily blogging then 😉 Saturday – we went down to find Lynda and Stuart at the castle. I took them for a walk around the village and to the craft shop while Ady nipped home to pick up some lunch stuff. We ate at the castle and then while Ady cleared up …
Home
I’m knackered and very tempted to just go to bed but having got back in the swing of daily blogging I don’t want to let it slip again. Up early this morning to keep checking Calmac status updates. In the end I rang them and was told they were hoping to get at least one …
Not straightforward then….
Ady rang the vets this morning and the vet was not happy to go ahead with Bonnie’s spaying. I had been googling last night and was feeling uneasy about the increased risk, particularly given we’d not be in easy reach of vet care should she not recover well so it was almost a relief really, …
Mainland
Up early this morning to get everything sorted ready to leave Rum. We had parcels and post to send so left the static by 10am, called into the post office and were at the pier by about half past. We took Bonnie for a walk along to the otter hide, aware that she’ll be cooped …
Leaving
Davies and Scarlett went down to Ranger Mike’s this morning for J Ranger. Not sure how much I’ve blogged about this and can’t be bothered to read back! Davies wanted to spend some time shadowing Mike to learn just what a ranger does incase it’s something he considers as a future job, also to learn …
Painting by numbers
We spent most of today down at Fliss and Sandy’s painting. It felt a bit like WWOOFing again :). The kids came with us and had a great morning watching films with Joss and playing with some Muppet toys that Fliss dug out. On the way down there in the car Davies was asking about …
Sunday seeing no one
A lovely start to the morning of a snuggly lie in reading my book while Davies also slept in and Ady and Scarlett went to feed the animals. Scarlett then brought me a cup of tea and joined me in bed and I read her a story. We finally got up and all had pancakes …
A very manly muppet
Guess which film we have from Lovefilm and has been good enough to watch twice? 😉 This morning we went down to Fliss and Sandy’s. The push is on to get their B&B ready by the end of the week as they have their first guests arriving on Friday. It will be tight but I …
Friday again
Home alone again this morning. The kids had room tidying to do so Bonnie and I took some empty Flora tubs and set off bramble picking around the croft. We did really well to get four punnets just on and around our own land 🙂 It was a perfect morning with beautiful clear blue skies …
5 months in
Yesterday – Ady went off to Sandy’s. The kids and I dressed as pirates and headed down to the village to catch the post office open and talk like pirates 🙂 Lesley had dug out some stuff for Bonnie’s ear which will hopefully make a difference as it is now smelly and not very nice …
J ranger, working 9-12 and stuff
This morning I had some home alone time. Ady is helping Sandy with some work finishing their B&B extension. They have offered to pay him but he feels odd about it given the amount of favours they have done for us and has told them he would rather just carry on bartering for favours. I …
Sunday, Monday, Happy days
Sunday – a well deserved day of rest, well as close to one as we get anyway 😉 Up late, animals fed and dealt with, eggs collected etc. The washing was piling up and in danger of starting to go moldy so Ady and I went down to the castle to get it washed. It …