I love that people on Rum now call Kirsty McColl ‘poor dead Kirsty’. Clearly I wish she were not dead but I love that our own brand of catchphrases has now entered RumSpeak.
It’s been a meetingtastic week, very busy and at times fraught. On Wednesday it was the Full Board meeting and the EGM (extraordinary general meeting) for the IRCT. Ady came down with me to attend the EGM and as we were walking down we bumped into Vikki and Alan Henderson who is our current chairman and one of the panel who interviewed us to get our croft so has always shown a special interest in us. They were walking up to look at Crofts 2 and 3 as it was a nice day and they had time so we double backed and joined them to walk the north side nature trail around both crofts. It was good to show Alan what we’ve been up to and have a chat.
The EGM was very brief, the full board meeting less so with lots going on to be thrashed out. We finally finished about 345pm and then had just over an hour before the Andrew Thin event was due to start. Andrew is the current chairman of SNH and was instrumental and helpful in the handover of land to IRCT. We’d invited him here as his last term of office as SNH chairman draws to a close to show off what we’ve done, keep him on board with stuff and generally have him visit. The plan was for a couple of us directors to speak at the start of an evening event, then have Andrew speak and then handover to the floor for questions. I ended up being the speaking director and then I got nicely drunk with Lesley on the free SNH provided wine! Lesley works for SNH so was most worried she’d spoken out of turn to the point of getting sacked, then she went home and fell in the bath. I went home and fell over on the way up the muddy croft hill.I think we both needed the chance to let off some steam. I heart Lesley!
Thursday morning was an SNH and IRCT liaison meeting with was another tricky one and I chaired it. There was tough stuff to say and deal with and it was quite draining (particularly with my hangover) but apparently I did a good job. I came home for lunch and then went to do crochet with Fliss and Casey before going to Mel and Em’s at the castle for dinner and X box playing (not for me, – Davies has set his x box up in the castle on Mel’s telly on the understanding that he gets to play it and so does she so they are sort of time sharing the telly and the x box).
Yesterday I woke early but laid in bed reading for an hour or so which was lovely and much needed. Then I baked bread and made soup using some polytunnel produce. Ady was over helping Gav and Laura with some cabin building so Bonnie and I went over to tell him lunch was ready. We had lunch, went down to the ferry – we had some stuff due to arrive although the exciting package containing our wind turbine has yet to arrive and then came back and helped Gav and Laura for a bit longer. I had another meeting to go to about bunkhouse stuff so went down to the village for that and had a nice couple of hours with Lesley and Vikki working on stuff before going to meet the rest of the Goddards at Mike and Casey’s for dinner. A lovely evening ensued with plenty of charades and hilarity.
Today I started my new Saturday morning job of Mrs Post Office. Two hours of learning about special deliveries, cashing up and stuff. A regular Saturday morning job at a tenner an hour which will pay for our veg boxes each week. I actually quite liked it and think it will be good fun and a nice thing to do each Saturday. Ady and the kids came down to meet me and we picked brambles on the way home. Back for lunch then the kids stayed home to do some drawing while Ady I went back to the village to collect some firewood (Ady) and pick more brambles (me). I bumped into Fliss along the way so we picked together which was nice, I’ve missed our friendship even if I don’t want to return to how it was.
An hour or so later I’d filled my 8 Flora tubs with brambles so walked back to Ady and we brought the wood and brambles home. Ady lugged them all up the hill while I chopped up 20 sacks full of wood. I have four still to chop. Back is aching and was very midgey but the wood store is looking very full and healthy which is a really good feeling.
Ian appeared with a fish (pollock) he’d caught for us, there was a duck emergency when one of the other birds (whether chicken, goose or turkey is unclear) gave it a very nasty peck to the head at feeding time, we all heard our first stags of the season roaring and finally stopped and went in for hot showers, cold wine and dinner at about 730pm.
Grease on dvd, nice dinner and a qiick trip out onto the sporran for some star gazing just before bedtime all makes for a full and fulfulling Saturday.
job and wind turbine is very exciting!! All sounding lovely 😀
Comment by Kirsty — 29 September 2013 @ 7:41 pm