Ady spent most of today on the phone trying to sort out an upgrade on his mobile. We rather stupidly had not changed our address on our contract phones and had been on the road back in 2011 when last we upgraded so just went into the nearest shop at the time. Hence Ady did his in Bangor, Wales and I did mine in Inverness. We had intended to not bother upgrading and keeping contract phones but the kids both want smart phones for camera / game / stuff so it makes sense to upgrade ours and give them our cast offs.
It took pretty much all day to sort out changing address, negotiating a good deal and trying to sort out
to our non mainland address. Ady still needs to ring back in the morning to finalise. I am yet to start the exercise….
I meanwhile spent the day making and baking. I did bread rolls and soup for lunch, packed up some dried herbs, baked bread, made yoghurt, made dinner for tonight and extra for the freezer, garlic flatbread to go with dinner and another to take as snacks on the Sheerwater tomorrow. And then made five jars of bramble and chilli jam later after we’d been brambling.
We had an empty jerry can of petrol to go off on the second boat so Ady and I walked down to do that at 3ish. We actually wanted to walk as there was a brief respite in the rain and I get all itchy and a bit stir crazy if I don’t walk each day. I’d fed the animals this morning and watered the polytunnel but that didn’t feel anywhere near enough fresh air and exercise. Gav pulled up alongside us to offer a lift for the jerry can (he had a full car of people) and then Neil pulled up to offer a lift so we took him up on it. He gave us a lift back to the village too and then we walked home by the nature trail and collected five tubs of brambles, The season has well and truly begun!
It started tipping down with rain just as we reached the croft so Ady went to feed the animals while I finished picking and then we stripped off and left wet clothes outside. The joys of remote living mean naked outdoorness is not really an issue! This may change when Gav and Laura finally move onto Croft 2 of course…
The weather is supposed to improve tomorrow, I really hope it does. It doesn’t feel like the winter should be setting in just yet…