Dad was round first thing and popped along with me to Mike & Rose’s to look at the Troublesome Gate. His suggestion was to cut down the gate. We debated that further and I put forward my idea for bringing the posts out further instead to fit the gate as I was really worried cutting …
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To me to you
Up with the alarm this morning for our first days paid work in, well in about a year. Dad was here at the house painting so he said Davies and Scarlett could stay with him for the morning rather than come along with us to Mike & Rose’s (the Not Swingers). We arrived just after …
Pulling it round
The house is pretty much finished 🙂 Dad came round this morning and has painted all the walls magnolia – ah the benefits of a small house and a builder & decorator for a father :). Everything is suitably blanked out and smelling of fresh emulsion. He’s back tomorrow to white out the rest. Ady …
Be excellent to each other.
Film fest and tip tastic day today. We had a lazy start and all ate breakfast still curled up on sleeping bags watching ET on video. This morning we had the most excellent journey to the skin clinic to have my patches removed. I only showed two allergic reactions – a biggish one to nickel, …
What does guide price actually mean?
This morning we made a job list and allocated days of the week to it – it’s easy to either feel overwhelmed and get nothing achieved or to spend time scurrying around getting obvious tasks done without really touching everything. We now have the house surface clean so have written a list of what definitely …
Tomorrow I will change and today won’t mean a thing
A combination of looking at old photos and listening to old music coupled with headspace while paint scraping today had me pondering on how different I am to the 19 year old Nic Ady fell in love with. I don’t think Ady’s changed much really and when I asked him once if he thought I …
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cackcoughony
as in coughs are cack 🙁 Scarlett fell asleep last night on top of me, having crawled, slug like across the lounge floor in her sleeping bag from their camping mat to ours with plaintive asks to ‘make me feel better Mumma’ 🙁 which blew my planned mention of how stoic she is about being …
Patched Up
The traffic woke me this morning just after 7am. It really is very noisy here! I’d gotten so used to it but having not really slept anywhere trafficky all year (with the exception of one or maybe two badly chosen laybys during the wild camping near Inverness) it was enough to rouse me. Then I …
Home?
Last day: Tuesday I spent in the office mostly. I finished writing new copy for the Guest Welcome Pack folders which go in each cottage, printed them all off, did laminating and left them ready to go back into each cottage. I also created logos for the front of the new Guest Comment Books, laminated …
Pending Nicface
Hmm, stuff that’s happened today: Exchanges of emails with Rum – it looks unlikely we’ll be able to get hooked up to the SNH owned hyrdro power electricity at any sort of sensible price, if at all. In many ways this makes decisions easier as without that as an option we are pushed towards self …
Links for later
stuff to look at with Ady Earthship Brighton – tour dates including one next weekend! Earthship.com – you can be a host for a build if you supply land and materials Generator kits for houses – a good option for power back up, initial supply and while we work out long term renewable energy options …
Breaking News
As in a blog of the people we’ve broken 😉 Yesterday we had got plans to head out to Wells and Street and do a charity shop trawl. Ady had made sandwiches to take with us and I was nagging everyone to get going when Sorry I’ve Got No Head came on TV just as …
In other news
because the lure of a lie in tomorrow means I am not remotely tired now 😉 Yesterday I was office bound all day. I quite like it in the office although it is very chilly. I did lots of adminny things including answering email queries, taking bookings, filling in forms and so on. I also …
People make things happen…
So my plan 🙂 We’ve been wobbling muchly about how the heck we’re going to get a house built on Rum. We’re waiting to hear whether we can tap into the SNH hydro electric and if so at what cost. It could be they totally sting us for installation and then we still have to …
Burns Night
Very frustrating to keep reading about the Northern Lights visible not only at the very top of Scotland but in various places we spent time last year while we’re down here in the far south 🙁 I had a fairly easy day – I spent the morning editing a film with the kids. They’d taken …
Frustrated of Glastonbury
Whingey day today 🙁 It started badly when my first cup of tea of the day was just too milky, I got up too late to have breakfast so it sort of sat making me feel icky. And it was raining 🙁 I was in the office today, which means I get left to my …
Weekend in Glastonbury
The times on this adventure when we have been able to share a bit of it with friends have been the most precious so to have The Barts here to show around Glastonbury, to see Middlewick, meet Jill and Johnny and of course just catch up with again has been fabulous. I think this was …
Speed Blog
A bit like speed dating but without the potential for rejection 😉 Today was a day of Great Anticipation because The Barts Were Coming :). I whiled away a lot of the day faffing with my laptop as I had been blocked by various places as a spammer. No idea whether someone had actually hacked …
If I run I might catch up
Or I might just forget what I’ve been doing 🙂 Yesterday Ady carried on pruning, cutting down and burning stuff – he and Johnny have cleared a massive area of land where Jill is planning to put camping pods in for next year. It’s looking good. I spent most of the day on the sofa …
By popular request…
well one hint, which might have been insincere, from Alison 🙂 Ady has been off doing bloke stuff in the fields all day. This mostly involved a chainsaw on a stick (it has a proper technical term like lopper or long reach but to me it was a chainsaw on a stick), cutting down stuff, …