Yesterday I mostly just enjoyed properly feeling better. I spent some time sorting out the storage area under the sofa and filling up jars and tubs with pasta, rice, flour, seeds and so on. I made pastry and left it to chill, finished off the Rumble and then went down to do a phone / Skype interview for the second applicant for the bunkhouse PM job. He was my favourite but I have deferred to the others and we have gone with the other one. I am just as confident they will do the job just fine, I just preferred this one. I got home just before needing a torch and Ady had finished the laundrette. We’re waiting now for a) more petrol to arrive on a non cancelled ferry and b) a day that is not so windy we are able to actually hang wet washing out without it blowing across to the mainland before we test it but in theory it is ready to go :). Very excited. This could be more life changing than the Great Bagel Setting on the Toaster Discovery of 2008.
I made mince pies (which are delicious and already almost gone!) and pizza and we watched Fred Claus which was excellent and is probably my favourite advent film so far. I realised today we are missing Charlie Brown Christmas and The Snowman so have ordered both but they may not get here in time so will go in the pile for next year.
I worked this morning – the weather was hideous so hardly anyone came in but I enjoyed tidying up the herbs and spices which always annoy me when I am shopping as they were all disordered :). Ady came down to meet me as we were expecting a reduced to clear sale to happen but it was rescheduled for later today and I didn’t manage to get hold of him because Jinty had taken the shop phone home in her pocket!
Home for lunch, I played some games using marbles with Scarlett and then headed back down to the village to meet with Lesley and Vikki to make our final decision on the PM job. Ady followed me down and we did indeed get some cheap and free bargains at the shop before coming home for dinner. Tonights dvd was Christmas with the Simpsons which is just some festive episodes and was a bit weak really but I had got Island of Misfit Toys (which was a favourite of Davies when he was really small) from ebay so we watched that too.
Tomorrow is winkle picking = not sure if I am dreading it or looking forward to it. A bit of both I think. Wish it was not forecast to be so windy though as we need to be on the beach for 9am to catch tides and the kids will still be in bed then and I don’t like leaving them up here on their own when it is too windy.