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 before bed and then once we’d packed them off we followed suit with a film – the Thomas Crowne Affair, before bed.
Today was more chilling, chatting and playing this morning, and then after lunch we headed over to Kirsty’s. Babs and Kirsty had to pop out at various points to drop off and collect various people which meant Ady and I had a fair chunk of time sitting in Kirsty’s kitchen with Kirsty’s laptop, a notepad and a phone to start working out what is next on our lists of things we need to do. We now have the static more or less in hand, know what generator we want and have decided to try and swap my car in for a diesel four wheel drive while we’re in Sussex to take back to Rum with us as our island vehicle. Next was some form of storage for the land – we know the static won’t hold *everything* and we’ll have stuff like tools, extra food (we’ll need to do food shopping in bulk as much as possible), things like loo rolls, tools, camping stuff that would usually go in a loft or garage and we will want up there with us but won’t necessarily have room for in the static. Our original plan was a container but some ringing round demonstrated that this could cost more than the static once we’d got it delivered! Some debate about a second static ensued before James came up with the suggestion of a trailer.
Perfect 🙂 We can tow it up there with all the extra stuff when we move and it can remain stored in it until we have the right space for it, then we have a trailer which will prove useful on and possibly also off the island for the future. 🙂 Hurrah for friends and ideas 🙂
Kirsty made pizza and garlic bread for everyone, Babs and co headed off to chess and we stayed another couple of hours looking at toilet options and talking about Rum because Kirsty says she’ll never get bored of that 😉 😉 😉 We left having booked them in for their first visit later in the year 🙂
Back at Babs’ we’ve stayed up far too late chatting and emptying the free bottle of wine from Ocado. My back is aching from too long on James’ special massager but I’ve got a runny nose and I know it will get worse once I go to bed and lie down.