Monday morning I had a meeting down in the village with Ali. In theory it was to talk about infrastructure but various things kicking off on the directors agenda meant we got side tracked into dealing with some other stuff aswell including calling in to see Mike and Casey in an official directors capacity. We did that and then had further furtive chats about stuff before parting so I could join Ady and go to meet the boat.
I then went to join Casey and Fliss for Crafternoon rescheduled to Monday from last Friday for some knitting, crochet and chat. We had a nice couple of hours and then Casey and I went back to hers for another cup of tea before going to the shop at 5pm to collect veg and meet Ady again.
We stopped for a beer and went to have a chat with some reps from SNH who were over to discuss a proposed MPA (marine protected area) designation for the Small Isles area. That was interesting and as Ady and I were in there on our own for a while they asked us where we were from originally (with our far from Scottish accents we get asked possibly more than anyone else on Rum when we say carstle and glarss and barsking shark :)) and chatted about crofting and travelling and home ed for a bit.
Back home for dinner, a foiled attempt at watching X Factor online (internet too slow) and a relatively early night.
Today was another meeting for me in the morning and then a post meeting cup of tea at Ali’s before coming home for lunch. As we were going out for the evening and the weather was pants we moved our evening to the afternoon and put the genny on to charge stuff up. I caught up with various online bits and then we went down to the castle for dinner with Mel and Emily (known as Em and M). We had a really lovely evening with them and then did our first real torchlit full walk home from the village this season admiring the amazing stars out tonight.
It’s mad windy which makes sleeping a challenge but I think it is forecast to die down after tomorrow. Which would be nice…