Yesterday morning was wet again but we had wood to collect. Billy, the builder who has been doing work on the castle roof since before we arrived here (we sat and chatted to him in the kitchen when we came over for our interview, he helped us with loaning his mats to get the static onto the croft) was finally leaving Rum and had promised us any leftover wood and other building materials but had been told he could not leave them at the castle. They had been moved to the bonfire pile of SNH so we needed to grab them asap before they went. Donning waterproofs Ady and I left the kids home and braved the rain and mud to load the car up. We did it in two runs and a huge pile of wood is now sitting just the other side of the river waiting for it to go down low enough to load the car up again and bring it back to the croft.
We then heard that the ferries were disrupted with the vehicle ferry only coming in once instead of twice and a smaller passenger ferry coming in twice instead. We’re starting to realise that ferries are a law unto themselves this time of year – which would not be such an issue for us if Ady were not being piermaster next week! We dashed to the pier and missed the first coming of the passenger ferry so rang Calmac to check times and the CoOp to ensure the food delivery we were waiting for was definitely coming and then dashed home for some lunch before heading back again to meet the boat. Food shopping safely collected we went home again – lots of toing and froing yesterday.
I’d made pizza dough for dinner so we fed the animals, put shopping away and then went down for an end of the week beer at the shop. We’ve been rather out of the loop for the last couple of weeks so it was nice to catch up with fellow Rumics for a couple of hours. We didn’t stay late and were home by about 730pm and eating by 8. We watched The Pirates – an adventure with scientists which was good but not amazing.
Today was a quiet morning. I did some bits online, made some apple sauce with Scarlett, some orange curd on my own, Ady did some applying draft excluder foam to the doors and the kids pottered about til lunchtime. Then we walked down to the village for a cup of tea and catch up with Fliss and Sandy who had been away for a week and got back yesterday. They both look much more like themselves after a crazy few weeks getting their B&B finished and ready to go so the holiday has done them the world of good. We missed them last week, it was good to see them home.
Back home again to feed animals and get settled in for the night. We’re trying really hard to minimise condensation which means as little hob cooking as possible once it’s getting cold / dark and cooking earlier. Sometimes we manage this… 😉 We watched Nanny McPhee 2 which we’d started watching once before and then everyone else went to bed. I’m about to follow – it’s too cold to sit up when my bed is so cosy and I’m enjoying a book on the kindle.