But the rain’s back! Which is good because our water butts were both empty after possibly our longest stretch here without rain so we were close to needing to gather water from the burn for washing up and showering which starts to become hard work.
Yesterday Ady went off to do some work at Norman’s while the kids and I stayed home. We read some more Mountain (we’re on the second one, they are far to lengthy to keep remembering the titles but they all have ‘mountain’ in.) and I made dough for flour tortilla wraps for lunch. By surprise Ady arrived home having failed to get Norman to be ready to do the house clearing stuff so we all had lunch together and then Ady and I collected wood while Davies, Scarlett and Bonnie ran around on the croft.
We fed the animals and then left Bonnie at home and went down to the village. We were off to Claire’s for dinner but stopped in to the shop first. My cider went straight to my head and I was feeling very giddy by the time we left Claire’s at 10ish. We had food, Steve and new Sean were there and it was all very nice. Claire had late Christmas presents for Davies and Scarlett and it was a really good evening.
We were home by 10 and I was in bed not long after.
Today we went to meet the boat after Popmaster as we had Co Op food shopping coming off – we’ve stocked up on meat and the freezer is now nicely full of dead animals 🙂 We dropped it all off at the freezer and then called in to see Sandy. He is clean again just now and we talked a little about what happened the other night. Fliss came home and Ady had a bit of a run in with Norman who walked past resulting in him saying he’d go round in half an hour so he dropped me and the shopping home and then went back to the village. I put the shopping away, finished making bread rolls from the dough I’d made earlier and the kids and I had lunch then I read to them.
Davies and I made bagel dough, I went to feed the animals and then shaped the bagels and Ady came home. I went down to collect the veg and stayed for a few drinks with Fliss and various people who were at the shop before coming home. Mike was up for dinner so we had a nice evening chatting with him and catching up as he was away just after Christmas so it feels like we’ve not seen him for ages.
It’s crazy windy and rainy tonight – still no snow. The weekend is looking to be a busy one – its Burns Night tomorrow…