Not as in insane, as in frantic 🙂 Monday Ah, so good to wake up again on our land 🙂 We headed down to the village where many claps on the back and congratulatory cuddles were offered. We realised we’d double booked ourselves for the evening so nipped along to Ian and Kate’s caravan. They …
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Home, home on the croft…
Where were we? Ah yes, midway along a very midgey nature trail track and deep in the depths of despair about life, the universe and everything! I’ve lost track of what day was what, I think I did my slightly more positive post on Wednesday so I’ll assume that’s true and start with Thursday. Thursday …
Back to silver linings
Writing it all out yesterday was definitely theraputic for me. I did have a little cry and then went and chatted to Vikki. She’s been off on island on holiday for 10 days and had come back on Monday. We’d met her from the ferry and brought her stuff back for her and gone in …
Static Abuse
Need to record this all because despite having knocked us for six I know that with a sense of perspective it will all feel better. It’s been said many times (by us) since we arrived here that everything gets all out of perspective and feels so much more intense than it actually should. This is …
Blogpost from 15th June
15 minutes I reckon I may get 15 minutes out of a ‘fully charged’ battery on the netbook so I’m having a quick bash at blogging at the static to upload at some point. Last night after blogging, finally uploading the photos to moonpig for a fathers day card and walking back up to the …
Not a real blog
But a quick one while I’m uploading photos to make a fathers day card for my Dad on moonpig 🙂 A good day today although not a very productive one. First thing the kids and I did some reading / writing / drawing stuff and then Ady and I walked down to take some library …
You know what? I concede defeat
Until we are in a place where I can get regular, uninterupted internet access I simply can’t pull off daily blogging. I find that really hard, infact although it sounds really odd and not a little sad it is internet access or lack of it that I am struggling most with just now. Every little …
Crazy catch up
Argh – all that time unblogged! I’ve been noting stuff as I go along but it’s hit a point now where trying to catch up properly is all but impossible with time, power and internet constraints, not to mention being rather busy generally! So, my notes read: Saturday – up early for the boat – …
Friday
A day on the croft 🙂 Ady tried to do a photoblog and has very comprehensively taken photos of his every move but I failed to explain that actually it’s supposed to demonstrate how Home Ed looks for us, rather than a pictoral monologue of his day ;). Will try again! The kids and I …
Pigs and pokes
Wednesday – PIG DAY! I was up fairly early and headed down to the hall to try and sort out an email I’d had from Calmac to say my card had been declined for paying for Shiona. It took ages to get through and by the time I did Shiona would have arrived and I …
Tuesday and that
Workie stuff with kids in the morning – I was with Davies doing more of his story, his writing is really coming on 🙂 Ady and Scarlett were writing a letter to Maisie as we’d had a parcel of random stuff from the Other Goddards including some birthday cards for Ady, a T shirt with …
Super speedy bloggage
I wasn’t going to blog but I have snuck into the village hall to check online stuff and need to have a reason to stay in the hall because there is *the* most interesting meeting going on with a group of students who I thought were here to do earth worm stuff but it turns …
Behind again
Thursday – I had my interview for the admin job. I knew it would be challenging as there were 2 other people going for it and at least one of them (Fliss) knows how the trust works and has bookkeeping experience, which were a couple of the things that were mentioned as desirable in the …
Phew!
Yesterday continued to go well – Vikki came up for dinner which was really nice. She is a funny girl, very quiet and I think pretty shy but every so often she comes out with statements like ‘I’ve been so excited about you coming’ which makes me think she is keen to be friends but …
Sunday, Monday and some of Tuesday
Sunday – Ady’s birthday 🙂 We’d made cards and he had a variety of gifts mostly bought from Jinty’s shop and labelled rather than wrapped. Including a box of biscuits ‘for snaffling’, several chocolate bars ‘for further snaffling’, a four pack of lager ‘for beer o’clock’, a sherbert fountain ‘for remembering your childhood’ and a …
Friday – bring on the numbers
Ady and I called down to the village hall first thing to make a couple of phonecalls which meant by the time we got back to the static we barely had time to start on one:one stuff before our first visitors arrived. Scarlett did a bit of reading to me, she is so quick at …
As many days as I can get through
Wednesday – I worked 🙂 For money 🙂 Clare who runs the teashop had a lunch party of 60 people to cater for. Fort William Historical Society coming to have a tour of the castle and eat lunch between boats. She was planning soup, sandwiches and tea / coffee and needed help. So I was …
Tuesday, Wednesday
Tuesday – we took the day off. A bit part of our new life is the ability to take time off whenever and wherever we feel like it, for whatever reason. Tuesday the reason was the sun shining and part of the island we’d not explored yet calling to us. We had diesel in the …
Sunday, Monday
Yesterday we all went up to let the chickens and ducks out together. The ducks were braver and ventured out fairly quickly, lured by a big tray of water. The chickens took some persuading and we grabbed them in the end. They decided they actually prefer the duck hut to the chicken coop but they …
Saturday – bring on the livestock!
The day started well with Bonnie not pooing in her crate overnight 🙂 After breakfast and several cups of tea Ady and I headed down to the croft to continue with chicken and duck house making. We finished the roof of the chicken house and managed to improve the design a bit too. I still …