Yesterday the ferry was like the Goddard delivery express from Mallaig with our waterproofs and the log burner on it 🙂 Oh how happy we were! We collected Sandy & Fliss’ stuff from the boat and dropped it round to them to share the good news. Sandy, who is possibly more excited about progress on our croft than we are unpacked it with us and said he’d come up in the afternoon to have a look at it with us. We went home for lunch and tried on our new waterproofs. Huge but with erm, growing room, or space for jumpers underneath or something.
Sandy came up and did the whole thing in two hours from ripping out the old fire and closing off the gas to installing the new burner. I do love him! We burnt it very low last night as it needs to be seasoned but could already tell it was going to make a huge difference.
We watched Forest Gump which we all agreed was a good story but the kids, particularly Scarlett found a little too sad to be watching so close to bedtime.
Today its been wild wet and windy again. I had to go to the Whitehouse (SNH HQ) to sign the paperwork for the venison processing at 11am so Ady came down with me which was just as well as we needed a witness for the signatures. So he did that. Back home for lunch and then I went down to crochet with Fliss. We had a really nice afternoon and then Ady came to collect me. Sandy had hoped he’d bring the kids so we could stay for dinner but they had stayed at home.
I’d made pizza dough earlier so a quick stop at the shop to buy some peat blocks for the woodburner and then home. Scarlett has been experimenting with old candle wax in making candles including using string to make wicks so she was excited to show me what she’d done. We watched Nativity on lovefilm instant which was perfect for laughs and light hearted entertainment.
Tomorrow is collecting wood 🙂