Yesterday was a little frustrating as we planned to get all the laundry done but there was no one at the castle to get washing machine tokens from so I was only able to process one load (I do bulk buy them but at £2.50 each I don’t want to tie up more than a tenner in tokens at any one time really). We did collect some logs, get Steve’s old solar panel which has a large crack in it so he has given us but will still work enough to charge the pig battery and find an old tyre to try out a log splitting aid idea we saw in this months Permaculture Magazine.
In between we had lunch, got all the logs up and I made a start in chopping and stacking them. The kids came down with us to the village and then Davies and I walked back together as I wanted to talk to him about a couple of things. That was good 🙂
Scarlett helped bring the logs up by finding her sledge and dragging that up the hill loaded up. Ady and I were saying that given we decided to Home Educate for Davies it is so lovely to see how well Scarlett has done with our lifestyle – she is so very happy being wild and free and I rarely ever worry about whether this is the right choice for her. If ever a child was in their element surrounded by mud, animals and excused to never wear a dress then this is the girl!
We had a lovely roast dinner and everyone except me enjoyed the chocolate orange cheesecake I made (It was far too sweet for me). Ady and I had a dreadful nights sleep as the wind was blowing a gale and he let Bonnie out for a wee at 330am and she did a runner! She has been suffering from frequent need to wee so when she started rattling her crate he got up to let her out and she legged it. I heard him yelling at her outside the window which woke me from my fairly fitful sleep. He then stayed up, I stayed awake and I think we both got back to sleep around 545am. Urgh. There are lots of winds forecast for this week so while we’re enjoying the endless free power and always on internet and lights I suspect we’ll be a bit zombie-fied from lack of sleep come the weekend.
Today after Popmaster we went down to sort the second load of laundry and lovely Ross gave me three free laundry tokens which made up for yesterdays grrness. We put the veg order in and bought some bits from the shop for dinners for the next few nights so we don’t have to go down of an evening.
Back up for lunch (lovely chicken broth made by Ady from leftovers and boiled up bones from yesterday) and we watched Katie Morag – it’s on cbeebies but it is so charming and familiar living where we do 🙂
I had a phonecall from the nissen hut people to check some details from some drawings I’d sent them and they will now work on a price for me. Then I went and chopped the rest of the logs.
Tomorrow there is supposed to be two ferries but Calmac are reporting disruptions so we’ll see what that brings.