Stuff today that has been grrr-y:
Insurance for the Pajero, not as cheap as I’d hoped. In the scheme of things this doesn’t matter at all as once we’re on Rum we don’t need insurance anyway, but I was hoping to just swap over to a different vehicle on my Sharan insurance and then have it roadworthy for six months incase we do need to pop back over to the mainland in the first few months. Ah well.
Ady walked in on Scarlett sitting in the bedroom at my parents going through her toys deciding what to keep and what to get rid of. She was talking to each one, kissing it goodbye, telling it she loved it and would miss it. Broke my heart when he told me and means we’ll find room for them all somehow. I hate that the kids have to go through tough stuff like that, even when I know it is all worth it long term. I don’t want them to have sad memories like that 🙁
I got a couple of emails this evening from Rum to say that the application form we completed was one of the old ones that was updated on 1st March and as such the Crofting Commission won’t accept it and it needs resubmitting on the form. Which means a trip to the library to print them all out all, complete them again and this will cause some delay as it needs advertising once the application form has been put in. Argh! Not sure how much delay there will actually be for us. We’d booked the static delivery for 12th April and we definitely won’t have the tenancy for the croft officially by then so it depends whether that is an issue and prevents us moving onto the land or if the IRCT can overlook it and we’ll just quietly start living there with the tenancy happening a few weeks later.
On the plus side we had a good morning; I sorted out the insurance for the house, found out about car insurance, dealt with various other paperwork stuff, processed some laundry, took delivery of the new kindle. Ady helped David the neighbour carry something heavy from his back garden to his car for which he has already been rewarded with two easter eggs and we anticipate many more tokens of his gratitude 😉
We had lunch and then went over to Mum & Dad’s where we went through all the boxes deemed stuff to be stored there. We managed to reduce that amount further and it is all now in situ in the area Mum had allocated us. I have no idea if it’s condensed enough for her, I guess we’ll find out at the weekend but it is really just photos and a few sentimental bits and pieces. We went through all the stuff coming with us and reboxed stuff in more logical fashion so it is easy to place once we arrive. Four large bags of clothing have come back over here with us to go through and decide which clothes are coming to Rum and which we don’t need. I am down to three pairs of DMs, three pairs of Oxygen shoes and my rigger boots. Not sure I can go lower than that 😉
The kids played with the lego and were building campervans with it – the character lego with instruction booklets to follow is all very well but I still think Lego is at it’s best when simply used to create something from imagination. I used to spend hours with the tiny doors and windows trying to build houses and create bricktastic versions of all sorts of things.
Back at home I dealt with the emails from Rum and the carpet fitter arrived. He measured up and quoted us for the various possibilities of flooring we wanted. We’ll probably get another quote just to be sure he is reasonable but then go with him I think. He reckons he can fit either end of next week or the beginning of the week after – if a competitor can do it sooner than may swing it for them though as the agent won’t start advertising the house until that’s been done.
Dinner tonight was steak – very nice 🙂 Davies has discovered the internet through his 3DS having previously not been remotely interested in such things. He and Scarlett decided to club together to pay for a download game for the 3DS so brought me the cash so I could pay for it on my card. Another parenting milestone there 🙂
Ady and I tried to watch iplayer but the mifi isn’t getting reliable enough signal to stream it so that was irritating and we listened to the radio instead. For every thing we seem to cross off our list of stuff to do another comes along to replace it. I’ll be soooo pleased to actually arrive on Rum, sit on the sofa in that static and raise my first glass of wine to toast our new home.