Which doesn’t make sense really when I have unlimited power and internet but there you go. I found more interesting things to do online than blog! Yesterday Ady and Stuart went off with the kids to the train station where a steam train is running back and forth this week. Stuart volunteers on the steam …
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First steps
After the very pleasant surprise of waking up in a proper bed we all eventually got up and breakfasted. The sun was shining for a while so a plan was hatched to drop Lynda and I off at Morrisons for some food supplies, then for Ady, Davies and Scarlett to be dropped off at Ben …
And relax
This morning we sorted Willow out ready to be left for a few days, packed the bed up, put sleeping bags back into their sacks, moved everything that might get shunted around if she goes up on a ramp or recovery truck and took out anything of value along with enough clothes etc for a …
Fairies
This morning was spent in the van, some card playing, some reading, some drawing and lots of chatting and drinking tea. Oh and listening to the radio. Ady won Popmaster this week 3 to my 2. After lunch I decided we all needed to get out, rain or no rain (it’s not stopped for about …
Breaking down is hard to do
This morning Ady was up super early again taking photos, this time of the loch, which was very beautiful. Like a mirror, perfectly reflecting what was above. Several loads of people stopped next to us to get out and take photos. So after Popmaster we decided to do the same and all went down through …
Yesterday
Wednesday 19th October Autumn Walk This morning we woke to more snow. Ady had got up and the gas bottle had run out while he was making himself a coffee so he’d had to change over to the spare bottle in the snow (the gas bottles are outside the van behind a little door). It …
Snow, games, love by email
I’ve had a flood of emails from Lynda today, all of which made me smile more and more and feel slightly teary. The first was to say the company had been unable to get hold of the owners of Wanderers End so they had booked a different cottage instead. A quick look at it online …
Quick! Blog!
A very lazy morning at the campsite with showers all round, watching dvds, online stuff and various other sitting in the van type stuff. The weather has truly turned and it has rained all day today with added blustery wind just to prove the point. We even had a couple of bursts of thunder and …
All about the plugging in
This morning Ady was up with the sun, which actually isn’t really *that* early but a couple of hours earlier than I was up! He sat on the bench next to Willow with his cup of coffee and the camera while the rest of us slept on.
Through rain and Sleat
I spent most of my limited online time last night searching for a campsite on Skye suitable for us. The kids are feeling the loss of charge from psp / ds and Ady and I are feeling overdue for showers. We had planned to have a night in a campsite on Skye before leaving but …
Friday, still in love
A very windy night on the far coast last night. We’d swapped sleeping orientation too which meant I was on the side next to the window and I don’t sleep as well that way. Have swapped back round again tonight. I didn’t hear the mouse but all the chocolate was eaten off the traps again …
Another house, same bloody mouse
The mouse kept me awake til nearly 3am scuttling about in the front. This morning we realised it had managed to get all the bait off the traps without actually setting them off. Git 🙁 Today we have bought some more mouse traps – this time live capture ones and some tumble drier sheets which …
House and mouse
This morning we woke to more evidence of mouse infestation. It’s now left dropping and gnawed things in cupboards and the cab. The cab worries me most as of course that is really the main body of the van and it is therefore inside with us too. Ady thinks it is different mice, I am …
Three cheers for Three
Email this morning from my contact at three to say he’d posted the new mifi out yesterday and it should arrive today, followed by a phonecall to the post office who confirmed it had already arrived with them :). It’s the new mifi, faster and a bit sleeker than the one before and I can’t …
From Sunday & Monday
written in word: Sunday 9th October. It’s all gone quiet over here Ady and I stayed up really late last night overdosing on internet access and electric hook up related activities which made for a later start this morning. We all had showers and spent some time compiling a blog post for the WW blog …
Frustrated of Skye
The plan this morning was to drive to a campsite on Skye and spend the day there, maybe walking for a bit if we found a campsite suitably located to do so but mostly charging everything up and having showers and getting the loo emptied. I’ve not managed to wash my hair this week and …
Over the land to Skye
Last nights overnight spot proved to be a noisy one. Ady was convinced the lorries were beeping as they drove past us from 5am onwards in a deliberate attempt to wake us, I am not so sure… Once everyone was up we walked along to watch the seals for a while. They were quite active …
Retail Dolphins
Woke up this morning to a beautiful view, sadly spoilt rather by two crows pecking a seagull to death 🙁 It even tried to fly off at one point and they attacked it and brought it back down again. Scarlett was very upset by it but it was too far into a very muddy field …
This could be Rotterdam or anywhere
A very ‘back to the real world’ day today. We needed food, petrol and a long list of other stuff so made a start of ticking some of it off. Tescos was first for food supplies – we’re now stocked back up with tinned and packet basics, some fresh fruit, emergency supplies of things like …
Falls
Popmaster this morning – Ady scored more points than me but we both did better than the contestants AND I got 3 in 10 so would have won the digital radio 🙂 Little things… We had marked a couple of the walks in Glen Affric as suitable with decent car parks according to the online …