Saturday morning we did laundry, met the boat, called in for a cup of tea at Fliss and Sandy’s and then came home for lunch. The weather had a break in the rain so we walked down to the village to drop Davies and Scarlett off with Sandy and Joss to watch films while Ady and I went to the hall for a Community Engagement Event about the classroom / educational facility and the visitor centre provision in the Byre Project.
That done we walked home with Fliss, stopped for a cup of tea and then Sandy gave us a lift halfway home as it was by now blowing a hooley and pouring with rain. We got in and I finished off pizzas just before Vikki came up for dinner. A nice evening although Vikki stayed later than we were really up for having had a run of late nights lately.
Yesterday Ady did various things outside while I spent ages on the Isle of Rum website doing the events page. It’s looking really good so time well spent. Then Sandy rang to ask if we had any spare painkillers as Fliss was fighting a headache and all they had in the house was calpol which wasn’t hitting the spot! When there was a break in the rain I walked down there with a selection of drugs while Ady got our roast dinner cooking. I stayed for 3 cups of tea (when Sandy is good and straight he is very, very good and rivals Ady for over-hosting!). I walked home also in the dry and arrived home to find dinner nearly ready and a box waiting for me containing my lost amber from way back in July that Ady had found blowing across the croft after all these months. Can’t believe it 🙂 🙂 I knew the solution was to buy a new piece and sure enough a month after Ady and the kids gave me a new piece for Christmas the original turns up!
Lunch was lovely and we watched Brewsters Millions before going down to the village for what is allegedly the last ever opening of the castle bar. We’ve never been as it was closed when we first arrived and has opened a handful of times over the winter but we’ve always felt it was probably not the right place to take the kids. It being the very last time we decided to make the effort and go so we could get some photos and have the memory of the castle bar as part of ‘our Rum’ too. So we did. Our plan was to stay for a drink or two but we ended up staying til the end participating in whiskey tasting and trying random liqueurs. Rach made popcorn for everyone and it was a really nice evening. We got home and everyone laughed at my pitiful attempts to read a story due to too much wine! 😆
Today has been a quieter one, I’ve not actually left the static. Ady popped down to the village and dropped off our veg order, the wind and rain has not stopped all day. I made soup, baked cookies and have enjoyed a day just the four of us. We watched Africa from last week and tonights Miranda. Emergency bag at the ready as the winds are forecast to hit 70mph again tonight but fingers crossed we sleep through it all and nothing of note happens.