Sunday morning we all walked into the village in the morning. We saw Lesley and Cara having a pony lesson and Bonnie had some time playing with Sika, Lesley’s dog who is her best doggie friend as Sika still thinks she is a puppy too 🙂 We did a circuitous route to the village and back via the nature trail and came home for lunch. We got roast dinner on, gathered water, chopped some firewood and then Ady and I walked down to the village to call in on Fliss and Sandy for a cup of tea and cake – the kids stayed home with Bonnie.
We were back home and managed an early roast dinner and watched Teenwolf from Lovefilm. I think we watched some Red Dwarf too.
Monday morning we walked down to the village again and as the post office was open we bumped into various villagers along the way. Back home for lunch of freshly baked bread rolls and some freshly made carrot and ginger soup. Ah I love soup 🙂 Davies never eats it but the rest of us do and Scarlett is a real soupoholic these days :). After lunch I did some firewood chopping, Ady did some water gathering and down at the polytunnel site Vikki, Abby and Claire were digging final holes. Scarlett went to join them and came back with a liberal coating of mud. Vikki and Claire came up for a cup of tea, Abby was so muddy she went back to the castle for a shower.I walked down to the village with Claire and Vikki and had a couple of drinks at the shop.
Today was back to work for me. I did some cutting out, some trying to sort out various stuff like a credit card to order stationery and lots of scanning of various things. Sandy called in briefly and the morning went very quickly. I walked home rather than getting a lift, which coupled with walking back down to the village and back again twice later today meant I’ve done a good seven miles at brisk pace today and I can feel my fitness levels rising again after a slightly less energetic winter. If the terrain was more forgiving I’d think about running but I just know I’d break my ankles on all the uneven rocky ground!
Home for lunch and then Ady and I went to the village to deliver some eggs and call in at the castle to see if they want any eggs (they don’t). Back at home I checked my emails and replied to a couple and then helped Ady move some fruit bushes. We got them as a gift from Ady’s old work colleagues last year and put them in quick as they’d been in transit for days and were looking pretty sad. At the time we stuck them in at the entrance to the croft where we were putting all the livestock partially for our own convenience and partially to look very efficient to passers by as it was the most visible part of the croft. Our plan now is to move the pigs onto that chunk of land where they can stay long term with different parts of the land open to them in rotation but their house staying in one place so the fruit bushes need to move.
I then went down to the village again as we have someone over from DTAS to talk to anyone interested who was showing a film and doing a bit of a talk. I went to that and then came home for dinner. We watched a couple of episodes of Miranda as we are planning on cancelling our Lovefilm subscription so wanted to get the last disc watched and sent back.
All feels a bit mundane really – stuff is going on but there is ever such a lot of walking up and down to the village admiring the river and teaching Bonnie tricks!
Xx just proving I’m still here. 🙂