Yesterday morning Ady went off with Dad to finish the job they’d been doing and collect my car. I had a lovely long bath and then did various online stuff. The car needed jump starting and some of the dashboard lights were on for a while but after being trickle charged up overnight the battery …
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Paperwork in a paperless world
Scarlett woke up about 530am and came into our room half crying. She wasn’t really awake properly and snuggled down into our bed and promptly fell back to sleep again. I didn’t. After getting up to the loo and then lying there for about half an hour with my mind racing I gave in and …
So, the croft then
I know it looked rather as though we were leaping from one everything our heart desired idea to the next for a while back there and in some ways we were. We started this year not really sure where we’d end up but hopeful that the answer to that would somehow come to us as …
Resource dump
just some links to have all in one place Rum – island website SCF – Scottish Crofting Federation Article on Crofting Article about Rum written by member of the Task Force ( starts on page 14) GOATS Article on dairy goats Cows vs goats milk comparison article Interesting blog post on goats vs cows St …
Setting it back up again
Seems it’s a lot more tedious to unpack life back out of boxes again than it was tidying them away in the first place. Ady went off with Dad this morning, theoretically for an hour or so but actually for more like 6 hours. That was fine as I had plenty to be getting on …
Ticking off the list
We have a list of the tedious, picking a life back up again stuff we need to plough through in the next couple of weeks, so today we made a start on crossing some of the list off. First we unpacked more of the van – we now only have a few things left to …
Weird Sunday
I woke up around 8am and sat chatting with my Dad who was also up for nearly an hour before anyone else got up. It was nice 🙂 Everyone else got up and Frazer and Cat went off to watch the Remembrance Parade in town. I’d half planned to go down but we’d have needed …
18 years later…
I moved back in with my husband and two children! And my brother and his girlfriend are also living here. Yet there remains a spare bedroom still. I think my parents house is too big! We left Lynda & Stuart’s at 10am and headed straight for Sussex. Thanks to the toilet on board we didn’t …
Ingerland
We woke this morning to a view of Loch Lomond which was all very pretty :). After showers, breakfast and packing up we headed off, bang on time at 10am. Having driven alongside Lomond for a while and been unable to answer curious questions from the back I did some googling and we all learnt …
Yo ho ho
and a bottle of Rum. This will be a bit of a spewing of words and thoughts really, not particularly expecting it to be very coherant. I’m exhausted – have a mouthful of ulcers, a faceful of spots and could sleep for a week. A combination of a week of agonising and uncertainty, the actual …
Standing on the brink of forever
This morning we did some packing up and then headed over to the house for breakfast, taking bedding for the wash and returning a clothes rack we’d been borrowing to dry washing. Neil came in and said he’d feed the animals but we were ahead of schedule so while Ady took the hoover across to …
Tuesday
We’re not WWOOFing anymore! I’m not really ready to reflect on the end of the WWOOFing adventure yet although to all intents and purposes we have actually WWOOFed our last days work today. I think if I’ve learnt anything this year it is never say never and you just don’t know what the future may …
Monday Monday
Dinner last night was interesting – Sue had left us a recipe and ingredients for dinner which I cooked – vegetable lasagne. Oh the irony of being the one cooking something containing beans AND lentils. Oh and cottage cheese too which I have previously never eaten solely based on the fact it looks far too …
Story so far…
Friday and Saturday Friday After breakfast we fed the chickens, ducks and pigs and then were given our direction for the day. This involved Ady going off with Neil for bonfire wood collecting while I was issued with a job list. Davies and Scarlett ticked the first couple of items off it for me by …
Divide and conquer
3rd November This morning after pig, chicken and duck feeding we were split up. Ady went off with Neil in the pick up to collect wood to take to the pier ready for the bonfire on Saturday night. He also got to meet some of the residents of Eigg, most of whom were already drinking …
1st and 2nd November
1st November Wow, first of the month. This time last year the beginning of our adventure was starting to edge ever closer. Now the end is doing the same, although of course it’s only the end of this phase. After a really good nights sleep we woke with the alarm and headed over to the …
Eigg – day one
Monday 31st October Arriving on Eigg A slightly stress morning waking to the alarm and rousing sleepy children to get breakfasted, cleared up and out of the van by 930am. Infact due to nervous energy we were out of the van by about 920am. Davies had woken all teary and suddenly decided he needed several …
Last night on the mainland
And one of our last nights in Willow potentially. We all slept well last night and made the most of that extra hour :). It was a windy, rainy night but we all slept better in the van than we had in the cottage, even though I woke a couple of times when the wind …
Thursday, Friday AND Saturday
Oops! Thursday morning we said goodbye to Lynda and Stuart. It was so lovely sharing the cottage with them. It was also a bit lovely to have it all to ourselves after they’d gone for 48 hours too! 🙂 Once they had gone we totally took over the cottage doing all the backed up washing …
Wanderer returns
First thing this morning Ady, Stuart and the kids went off to take photographs of the steam train going over the bridge near the cottage. Lynda made me cry by insisting we still take the petrol money for Willow she’d said was a condition of their coming up to Fort William (it’s been a very …