An almost entirely at home indoors day today. The shape of the season to come I suspect. Some of us are better at this than others…. I spent some time putting the Rumble (Rum newsletter) together, I’m waiting on a couple more submissions before setting it to print. And knitting. My fleece is now about a quarter covered in knitted patchwork. It’s a longer job than I suspected but I think it will be fab when it’s finally done, just hope that happens before the summer comes!
Ady ducked between showers and buried in some pipe just outside the static. He has rigged up some guttering and a downpipe, then buried in some more pipe to take the water from the static roof away down the hill a little. The area around the static is utterly flooded and didn’t even dry out through the summer – the water run off is too much for the ground to take.
The kids made birthday cards for Mel (Castle Manager, birthday tomorrow), connected on various devices, watched some downloaded iplayer stuff Ady had got for them, Davies did some Adventure Time pictures (their current passion, I am now such an out of touch parent that I have no real idea of what it is they are talking about!).
I made bread (rolls for lunch, a couple of loaves for the next few days), finished off the massive amount of ginger I got last week by making two jars of preserved ginger (boiled in syrup basically – I have four jars of ginger infusing in vodka in the wardrobe – half will stay as vodka, the other half I’ll add syrup to to make liqueur) and Ady and I worked out a floor plan on paper of our current idea for a more permanent temporary house for next year. More on that soon but we sent an intial email for more info today and it is all very heartening so far – I think.
After lunch the kids went to water the polytunnel and walk the perimeter of the croft – they had lots of energy to run off! Then Ady and I walked down to the freezer to collect something for dinner. We didn’t see another person – so indicative of this time of year. I’ve exchanged emails with various Rumachs during the course of the day for various reasons but to not see another soul all day is odd – back in Sussex you couldn’t go more than a minute even in the middle of the night without someone driving past the house, during the day the briefest glance out of the window would see traffic, people walking past, people in the tens of houses we could see from our house.
Tomorrow wild weather is forecast – we’ll see whether it brings ferries and deliveries or not…