A day of great efficiency. After sending off most stuff yesterday in the post (secret santa for an email group I’m on, all the Christmas cards we’re sending (not many, if you get one then consider yourself very special indeed!), a crocheted hat for Robin) the remainder went today (some Christmas decorations I’d sold to someone who reads the blog, cards I didn’t have addresses for but had tracked down since yesterday). As did the winkles. Animal feed arrived today. The kids have a DS game each still to come, Ady has a photomug, I think both of the presents Ady ordered for me are still to come, other than that everything is here and wrapped. Photobook for Mum and Dad has been despatched and the tablet we got for Davies has been fully charged and I’ve set him up an email address and some apps and shortcuts already on there for him.
We booked the holiday cottage for Monday – Thursday at £50 a night, cheaper than the travelinn AND we get 3 bedrooms, a bath, kitchen, TV with sky, washing machine and of course things like electricity! We debated doing five nights rather than just three but decided it would be too long to kennel Bonnie at the vets (she is being spayed), too long to leave the croft and ask for favours to feed the pigs and birds, more expense in hiring the car and the cottage and actually what we’ll save in not having those 2 extra nights will pay for the big food shop we’ll do. So our plan is a day trip to Inverness to do a big clothes shop, a day in Fort William to do food shops, three nights of lazing in the bath and watching TV and then home again. I think 3 nights will be enough! Also booked the car hire and Bonnie into the vets so all of that is now sorted and organised 🙂 We should get the rest of the winkle money on Thursday so we’ll know how much we have for our shopping trips.
Still to do is some baking of mince pies for us, the Christmas cake to marzipan and ice (but I have the marzipan and icing sugar), some bits for the kids Christmas party on Friday which I’ll do with the kids on Thursday. I have a phone interview for the school job on Friday morning. Tomorrow we’re packing up venison for a few orders we’ve had on and off island and there will be more wood collecting. We were planning this week to be pretty quiet and restful, somehow it doesn’t seem to be panning out that way…