Today was about being crofters 🙂 Now we are official it felt even more right to be spending the day on our land. We listened to Popmaster and then headed to the croft to start making a chicken coop. We didn’t have much of a plan really although we’d been inspired by our John Seymour …
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I could get used to this
Wednesday -boat day. We called into the IRCT office to collect some DG (dangerous goods) notes to send our empty diesel jerry can off on the ferry with and have it sent back full. Our first red diesel order, we are islanders now :). We then went along to the campsite shower block to learn …
May Day
Today was the May Day Flower Ramble with Ranger Mike. After breakfast we headed down to the village hall to meet Mike and the other attendee (just one person today). It was billed as a 3 hour gentle ramble around the village and coast to explore the early flowers but as there was only a …
Is it really Monday?
I did blog a post last night and intended to upload it today but it appears to be lost somewhere on my laptop (I’ve checked it’s pockets and down the side of the sofa but it is still unfound). So that can’t be told. It blathered on about river dipping, book binding and stuff anyway. …
Yo, ho, ho and a bottle of Rum
Friday – always a good day I find 🙂 We’re getting our heads around the rhythm of the days and weeks here, it all seems to revolve around the ferry coming. In the summer that is Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday – twice each day. From next week we’ll also have the Shearwater coming across …
Home Sweet Home
A way better day today 🙂 After a first night sleeping in the static everyone was feeling a lot better. To wake in our own home, sort out breakfast without the small talk with other residents and just start the day at our own pace was fab. Even if Davies ate his cereal dry off …
Peaks and troughs
So, so many challenges. The tough bits: We bought some dog food that appeared not to agree with Bonnie. Lots of poo to clear up 🙁 Then realised that getting more was going to be very non straightforward. We will get the idea of ordering stuff across and ensuring we have enough time but dog …
Getting Here
Tuesday – the start of the epic journey ‘home’. We woke to pouring rain, which felt like it must be in some way symbolic, I just wasn’t sure quite how. Tasha tweeted to say ‘Worthing skies are crying because Nic is leaving’. We’d talked about being away between 10am and 11am, knowing full well it …
So here it is…
Another morning of stressy squabbling – me and Ady, not Davies and Scarlett. It’s stress, anxiety, totally understandable different ways of dealing with everything but all makes for a fairly unpleasant time while people are shouting at each other 🙁 Hurrah for that all being over with now. We did not get as far as …
I never promised you a rose garden
A complete rollercoaster of a 48 hours. 😉 🙂 🙁 😳 😯 etc. Yesterday morning I woke in pain from my foot – the larger blister on my left foot had burst and was incredibly sore. I patched it up with some plasters and an eye dressing – everyone most amused that by calling it …
Pasta, bacon, those phallic black pepper grinders…
Yep it’s another night out for Nic in an Italian restuarant 🙂 Today we were supposed to be meeting Julie & co for a walk at Highdown Gardens. All was going swimmingly when David knocked on the door to say we’d left our lights on. Easily done in the whole no dashboard lights, streetlight directly …
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Don’t you want me baby?
I actually have a friend, Nina, who was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar when I met her. None of the other bits of that song are relevant to our friendship but we had some great times together (eating toast and jam at 4am, topless sunbathing on her garden roof, drinking cocktails til …
A TFFT sort of day
Where stuff did actually start to fall back into place again. Ady rang the letting agent who said they were waiting for the tenants deposit to be transfered and as soon as that was done they would start drawing up paperwork. We decided to cancel the bathroom flooring being fitted on Friday just in case. …
This used to be your life
Today has been a not getting very far with things sort of day. This morning I tried to sort out redirecting post to our new address – except it doesn’t exist. So I’ve emailed Royal Mail to try and sort that out (The Yurt, Isle of Rum is listed so I suspect Croft 3 will …
You do sometimes wear pink
A lovely time at Marcus, Michelle & Chloe’s as always 🙂 Fantastic food (cooked breakfasts, cooked lunches, cooked dinners, loads of meat; beef stew, curry, haggis and roast lamb), plenty of free flowing beverages (hurrah for fizz!), wildlife walks, Easter egg hunts, Morgan Freeman film fest, laughter at youtube clips, splendid music, but most of …
Further Glastonning
Hadn’t realised I was not quite so far behind with blogging actually 🙂 Yesterday was our last day – I spent some time in the morning topping up bottles of cleaning stuff, handwash etc from giant containers and then half an hour doing a real rush job on placing a wholefood order before the deadline. …
Glasto
Slack bloggers R us ! Monday I have no idea what sort of dementia our sat nav has (she is a lady in her doteage – we call her Sally and in satnav years I consider her to be in her late 70s) but she led us on a merry dance to Glastonbury. The Pajero …
Gooseberry Fool
instead of an April one. Up with the alarm this morning as we were due at Bruce’s at 9am to perform the Great Car Swap. Smiled at our horse box, patiently awaiting our collection in 2 weeks time – can’t wait 🙂 Bruce gave us a quick once over on the Pajero, we’re going back …
We could teach that Old Mother Hubbard a thing or two
A far better night’s sleep on the new air bed last night. Makes me realise just how crap the camping mat had gotten. Today’s jobs were to put all the stuff we’re leaving here into the back of the loft space, clear everything out of the cupboard under the stairs and empty the car out …
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Air bed, to rest our heads
This morning I made pancakes for breakfast to use up spare egg and milk mix that I made too much of for the quiche – using up leftovers, free eggs and applause from children – result 🙂 We walked into Lancing to tax the Pajero. Wikipedia tells me various interesting facts about Pajero but my …