Workie stuff with kids in the morning – I was with Davies doing more of his story, his writing is really coming on 🙂 Ady and Scarlett were writing a letter to Maisie as we’d had a parcel of random stuff from the Other Goddards including some birthday cards for Ady, a T shirt with dogs on, a leather bound notepad, a bar of chocolate and a jar of curry powder. We *think* we distributed them properly between us 😆 Scarlett has been doing lots of bird drawings and colourings and is really very good. She’s done some excellent kingfishers, shearwaters and herons. Must take some photos of them to share. She is also getting her head round looking birds up using the index and thus doing some reading and alphabetical order stuff too.
We finished that, listened to Popmaster and then headed down to the library to put our leisure battery on charge as it was showing as completely empty. We are trickle charging it using a borrowed solar panel (We need to get our own, bigger version) which is more or less coping with it but it had suffered during the few days of continuous rain which had us using the lights and water pump more anyway due to being indoors so needed a decent top up. There is power in the library and on the basis I am planning to do lots of volunteering in there we felt justified in nicking some!
Then to the croft to do some more strimming, some more burning cardboard (looking forward to using the cardboard in a rather more permaculture-y way really, for mulching and stuff or even just compost but for now we have so much we need to just get rid of it) and some more just hanging out on the croft really. Ady is definitely doing the lions share up there at the moment while I am just trying to work out the best way of moving everything forward. More lists I think!
Back to the static for lunch and to stick on one of the very large joints of pork for our dinner (we cooked it long and slow and have plans for a pork lasagne tonight). I put away the veg box order from the night before and did some crochet-ing. I wanted to make a new camera bag to carry it around with me and did that while the kids did drawing stuff. Ady nipped back to the croft and did some more strimming while I was doing that.
We walked down to the teashop to try and do some online stuff but there was a directors meeting at 5pm and Vikki was there chatting to us so we actually failed to get anything done as we felt we should clear out when they started their meeting – I am not sure if we really needed to or not but it would have been strange to sit and be in there while they had their meeting. The IRCT directors stuff definitely contributes to feelings of oddness on the island IMO.
Back to the static for dinner and then down to the village hall again this time to listen to a talk by Dr Butt about earthworms on Rum. Another creature that has been extensively studied here and another Rum fact – the largest earthworm in Britain was found here on Rum! It was an interesting talk, with slideshow and made all the more interesting because the last slide featured Davies and Scarlett at the talk the previous day and they earnt a namecheck too :).
Back to the static for bed for kids and chats for Ady and I. There, I think that is a rather more comprehensive account of the day. Still interupted lots (Eve is playing in the hall and giving me a running commentary on what she is doing which is rather distracting!) but better 🙂