She is so good for me 🙂 This morning Lynda and Stuart went off out for a walk leaving us to our own devices. The kids played for a while and then put a film on – Toy Story 2, while Ady and I did some work on our cash flow stuff to present to …
Author Archives: Nic
Back in the zone
I’ve got a cold 🙁 I pretty much avoided the lurgy that struck the rest of the family down but I have succumbed to it this time round and am snotty, coughitty and generally glum with it. This morning after breakfast we headed off for a walk into Altrincham. I needed various cosmetic bits (it’s …
A Rum lot
I’ve started a page with some info about Rum – the stuff I’ve been sent about how everything works and a brief intro to the people we’ve met so far. I’ll keep adding to it so I don;t need to reintroduce everyone when I mention them onblog 🙂 http://goddardstuff.co.uk//?page_id=5486 It’s in the side bar under …
Postcode Lottery
I can’t decide whether it is one of those quirks of memory that means I have several people’s postcodes stored in my brain now or whether it really is an indication that we have spent too much time enjoying their hospitality of late 😉 This morning was spent researching various things online and sitting very …
Crazy o clock with added coughing
Yesterday I didn’t get up until midday. I felt much the better for it although I was back in bed again not long after midnight so still some catching up to do. It was a perfect low key day, chatting and communal cooking for adults, playing and chilling for children. The kids watched a film …
Machair
There’s a word / thing I didn’t know before yesterday 🙂 I called out ‘meadow’ when we were shown a picture and everyone else in their Scottish accents called out ‘machair’, I got drowned out so it was okay 😆 The second day of the course was equally full on in terms of information tsunami, …
Crofting Course
Really should be in bed, it’s late and tomorrow will be a *very* long day indeed. Course was fab – I walked in and the woman running it said to the only other person already there ‘ooh, this is Nic’ to which he rather gushingly told me about how he’s been reading all about me …
Leaving for the last time?
I hate getting up with the alarm. I do wonder if all of our choices to this point are infact a really elaborate way of me avoiding getting up for work in the morning… home ed, traveling, moving to a remote island and getting a croft… 😉 mostly it works! 😆 We were on our …
My Days
Because I know at least one person will be waiting 😉 Yesterday was a leisurely morning with much tea and chatting. I commented to Jan that I love how our different friends all help us meet different needs and provide help and assistance and resources in their own unique ways. Within minutes of arriving at …
Ben’s room, Catie’s room
All our children are growing up 🙂 Yesterday we had a lovely day at FabBabs with Kirsty, James, Marcus and Alex coming over too. The kids all played, outside for ages and ages, until after it got dark. We kept peeking at them all six younger ones on the trampoline together, mostly sprawled out chatting …
Walking
Babs came up with the idea of A Walk today which was an excellent one. Far too much time spent infront of wii, DS, PC and TV this week for all children has made for a lack of colour in cheeks and fresh air in lungs. Babs consulted maps and came up with a route …
Beginners Guide
This morning Ady and I spent some time coordinating ‘to do’ lists and drawing up more questions and answers for researching. We stopped for Popmaster obviously ;). I had a whole host of questions pertaining to just living on Rum as a resident – how does shopping work? Vehicles? What will our postcode be? That …
Spring is the air
everywhere I look around… Today we’ve all been in and out lots, but not together. Babs & Co did tennis and some of them did choir. We went off to meet Mark from Green Directions who is a friend of Chris he’d arranged a meeting for us with as he thought Mark’s business might be …
Further rollercoasteringness
Another day, another agonising round of decisions and talking stuff over. Babs, Ben and Rachael headed off to church this morning to get ash put on their foreheads 🙂 It’s very interesting seeing people give things up for lent, hence my friendfeed post earlier. Kirsty, Marcus and Alex came over for the day so the …
Meanwhile at Babs’
We’ve been cooking curries 🙂 We’ve decided to nip across to Rum again next Thursday. We need to have another look at the land and get some really accurate photos and measurements of the access track so that we can plan stuff from a distance like getting a static across. Due to not being on …
Curve balls at the weekend
So it was all planned; interview on Rum followed by a day exploring, followed by a weekend at Neil & Sue’s on Eigg catching up and then a 10 day stint of WWOOFing for them before heading back to the mainland next Wednesday for the crofting course. Nice and tidy. Except as we stepped on …
Our new address then…
will be Croft 3, Isle of Rum 🙂 This morning Ady and I both woke early after the best nights sleep we’ve had in ages – all that low lying tension has gone. I know there are challenges ahead but this feeling of right-ness and peace is so very lovely 🙂 We had breakfast and …
“yes”
Up with the alarm this morning at 7am after a far too hot to sleep properly night in the Travelinn at Fort William. We all got dressed and were in the restaurant by about 720am – unheard of hour for at least 3/4 of us 😉 Breakfast eaten we got the car loaded and headed …
Trying to list homes
So is Willow our first or second home? Osborne Drive – where does that come? I was about to claim FabBabs as Our Second Home and them remembered that actually Mich and Marcus have made us very welcome in their home and I feel just as able to bimble around their kitchen to make a …
Buildings can be inspirational too
This morning we drove over to Brighton to join in with a tour of the Earthship# at Stanmer Park. I’ve been aware of it for years as some local Home Ed folk had connections with it years ago but never actually visited despite it being on my list of interesting things to do at some …