Can you tell I’ve been hanging out with a Canadian? 😉
On Sunday morning Manager Mike (new SNH reserve manager, not Ranger Mike, it gets very confusing here when we have two people with the same name!) came up. He is really into our lifestyle and all about the permaculture and transition town and stuff so we are a bit icon-eqsue to him. I don’t know if he will last as he is finding the job tough but if he does I think he will fit in well and be a great addition to the island.
We showed him around and then Gav came over to ask for help from us all so we headed over to their croft and helped lift a large bit of the cabin up high and position it. Steve and Claire were over there already and Laura arrived while we were there.
Then it was lunchtime so we headed back over to our croft. I chopped up the last of the firewood and Ady and I planned the week ahead. I burned all the rubbish and spent lots of time reading.
Monday – we had plans to collect more firewood, put a wash on and various other running around the village jobs, all hampered by the car dying. We ended up carrying the washing, the veg box, stuff from the freezer for dinner and the post up from the village. Bloody heavy! We decided not to move the pigs as we came up with a proper pig moving action plan which requires spare posts so we ordered them instead. I spent some more time researching fruit bushes and ordering a load to fill the fruit cage.
Ady, Scarlett and I went down to pay for the veg and have a Monday night beer, Davies stayed here; he is practising being a teenager 🙂 I managed to fall over on the way home (not drunk, I’d had two tins of cider only) and really hurt my hand and my knee. I cooked a really nice dinner despite my injuries. I may have deserved some sort of heroic award or medal 😉
Today I spent the morning doing some online stuff while Ady did some various outdoor tasks. After lunch we all went down to Dave and Sylvia’s. Dave is looking at our car for us and has lent us use of a van while he does so, it won’t get over the river so is only half useful but does mean we can bring things to the start of the track off to the crofts which is good given we have a large Harbro (animal feed, fence posts, compost etc.) order arriving later this week. We had a couple of cups of tea with them and Davies and Scarlett played with Andrew (2 next week) and then Davies had his birthday present from them of a drive around the village of Dave’s golf buggy. He LOVED it and was actually a pretty good driver bless him.
We left them and headed home, part way in the white van. The kids fed the animals and I mostly lolled about moaning about my sore knee and hand. Ady cooked dinner – we had chips about which there is a funny anecdote which I can’t be bothered to type out now – and Vikki came up for an hour or so.
Early night all round due to very bad nights sleep last night thanks to poorly knee and roaring stags.