Yesterday I mostly spent lots of time sewing up the netting which covers the fruit cage imagining myself to be like a fisherman mending nets. At one point Ady came down and managed to chase a couple of turkeys in who then flew to try and get out and ripped a bit I’d just mended. The air was very blue indeed after that as I used all the swear words I know at the turkeys. Fortunately no tourists were walking by…
I gave up around 5pm as it started to rain and I was disheartened with lack of progress. Scarlett’s hair was super tangled (I think the onset of puberty is doing something to her hair and making it tangle more than ususal) so we watched a film while I brushed it after a shower for her. It took almost the whole film… I also fixed the hairbraid she has had in for years and years and put a new thread at the top as it had grown out.
I had a lovely catch up chat phonecall with Julie in the evening.
Today was a stressful start as the car would not start (flat battery) and we had a big Co Op food delivery arriving along with some amazon stuff. We walked down to the village to seek help and borrowed Jinty’s car to drive up and jump our car off of. It took a while but we sorted it and then drove to the pier. Deliveries collected we came back to the croft to drop stuff off and then took the car back to the village to put the batteries on charge before coming home for a very late lunch.
After lunch Ady and I dug up all the fruit bushes from various places to replant in the fruit cage and caught all the turkeys to clip their wings. We’ve decided to pen them as they are just so destructive but thought clipping their wings in the meantime while we await building stuff to create a pen might curtail their craziness a little. I caught my first turkey and also got battered in the face by my first turkey flapping it’s wings. I now have two big red welts across my cheek and some blood on my forehead. It really hurt!
We walked down to the shop to buy some poppadums, put in our egg invoice and pay for Monday’s and then home again to get dinner on. Ady made a lovely curry and we watched some Attenborough while we ate.
Sunrise and sunset are getting ever closer together and more spectacular in the skies they bring which I recall from last year. I now have a torch in the pocket of all of my coats.