The croft is stag tastic at the moment. Last night Ady and I watched a pair mosey past the static at a very close distance and leisurely pace, today there was another down at the riverside watching us for ages.
Ady and the kids left me reading in bed this morning as they went down to the village to take part in some moth monitoring that Ranger Mike was doing. There was not as many caught this time as the last event but they got some emperor moths again. I walked down half an hour or so after them and called into the hall to see if anything exciting had been found before walking on to school via Fliss and Sandy’s to collect Joss.
School was fairly nondescript – I spent over half an hour on the phone to Stuart the headmaster and another 20 minutes on the phone to Ady. I did some googling of cob houses and that was my three hours gone really. I walked back with Ali, Fliss and their girls which is always fairly tedious – it’s a long time since I was tolerant of 3 and 4 year olds pace, dramas and demands and I suspect I was not actually that tolerant of them even when they were Davies and Scarlett executing them ;).
Back home for lunch and then we all headed across to Croft 2 to track down Gav who is moving his hardcore and cement with a power barrow from the village to the croft to sort out his foundations. Well he should be, but the barrow was not working. We met up with him and Laura and Ady had a look at it but between us all we failed to get it going again so after an hour or so we all went our seperate ways.
Ady and I walked around our croft trying to find best locations for a cob farmshop and a log cabin and have earmarked potential sites for both. We came back up for cups of tea and further chats. We are about to engage another estate agent to try and sell Osborne Drive again but are thinking we may be better putting it back up for rent again if it doesn’t sell fairly soon. Much discussions with Mum and Dad planned for next week when they arrive.
I made bread dough and then we went down to the village – Ady to meet the joiner who was here with replacement glass for our broken window. Now all fixed and us £60 the poorer – eek! Me for a meeting with Lesley about information for the camping Kabins which we combined with a wee pow wow about venison processing and castle options. I like Lesley a lot, she is an oasis of calm in an otherwise crazy island at times.
I walked round to meet Ady and they were just finishing so we came home together. I sorted out dinner, Davies nipped back down to the village as he particularly wanted spaghetti rather than farfalle pasta with his meatballs so he went and bought some. Ady and Scarlett fed the animals and we all sat down together. We watched the first episode of Manimal which I’d been telling them about during our 80s Saturday night TV talk and I’d recalled watching. It has not stood the test of time and advances in special effects at all well and was entertaining in it’s rubbish-ness but not entertaining enough to watch the rest of the dvd so that will be going back to Lovefilm tomorrow.
Ady and I listened to Popmaster on iplayer – looking forward to hearing it live again every day from next week 🙂