Saturday – I realised late ish on Friday that I had said the first Rum choir meeting would be on Saturday. I had also tentatively arranged for a visiting couple to call in for a cup of tea on their way to the boat. They were supposed to be camping at Kilmory so by my calculations would not be with me before 9am and would need to leave before 11 to meet the boat so I knew I had a window for them turning up. I spent the time crocheting and looking out of the window, having decided they were not coming I walked down to the hall. No one came for choir – Fliss messaged me to say she had thought it was 11am rather than 1130, Deb messaged me later to say she had forgotten and Stevie had called in to see Ady to say he had changed his mind about doing it. I gave it five minutes then walked round to meet Ady from work instead.
We decided to leave the car in the village and walk home, meeting Ali and Eve coming  back from the ferry so chatted to them awhile before coming home for lunch. It was sunny but really cold out so we ended up watching animal programs, crocheting and having showers / hairbrushes before getting ready to go down to Fliss’. Fliss had invited a load of us round for the evening, we called in at the shop for snacks and drinks and to collect the post (new kettle and new wellies! Yay) before heading round there. We were the first, shortly followed by Lesley, Bad Neil and Baby Dougal, Doug, David and David’s visiting girlfriend Raquel, Mike & Deb and Jed. Ali came too – all of them were invited by they had had Joss round for a sleepover with Eve the night before and Eve was knackered so Sean had stayed home with her while Ali popped round. Fliss had done some delicious food – a fish stew, pizza, venison, cajun chicken, breads and more and it was all lovely. We ate, chatted, drank and had a great evening. Davies and Scarlett left around 1030, we followed around 1230 getting home about 1am. I’d had a fair bit to drink so went to bed while the genny was still on and the electric blanket was still working 🙂 Scarlett came and got into bed with me for a while. She then got back up when everyone else had gone to bed to wrap gifts for me.
Today – Ady went off to do wood stuff with Mike, I woke about 9ish and read in bed for an hour or so, then got up and made soup and bread rolls for lunch. I drank lots of tea and crocheted. I woke the kids around midday and they gave me my pressies – loads of chocolate, a wine tumbler from my favourite potter who made my lovely tea mug I got for my birthday, a card and painting from Scarlett and one of Davies’ classic tear jerking cards complete with lovely illustrations and words. I do have the most lovely, lovely children 🙂
Ady came home, we had lunch and then walked down to the village for cinema club. Trudi put on Restless Natives  which was really good, never seen it or heard of it before. It was funny, the soundtrack was ace and the scenery was stunning, really enjoyed it. There was us, Trudi, Jed and a couple of tourists so pretty small gathering but good to have started it up again. Next Sunday and onwards!
Home for animal feeding, getting dinner on and playing some Blokus. I rang my parents. We watched Doctor Who and somehow it got really late. Everyone very tired so off to bed with me now.