Winkles are done for this year. We have nearly six full sacks which is pretty good going for 4 days, wish we’d managed to find a contact earlier but it should still bring us a few hundred quid which is going straight in the nissen hut fund to kick start us. They are booked on tomorrow’s boat and the bloke is collecting them – fingers crossed for the boat running, for the winkles getting there safe and for us getting a decent price for them. Lots of ifs and buts and unknowns there really but our work is done.
Another dead pig yesterday, the other little girl. I am worried about the smallest boy, infact I’m worried about all of them really 🙁 Ady buried her next to her sister. We’re learning all the time with this animal keeping lark, it’s just so tough when your method of learning more is dead animals 🙁 We have moved their house, Ady has put a buffer sheet across the front to stop the wind and we collected an old door from SNH today to put down as a base. We’ll move them this weekend to a drier patch of land too although of course that is only dry relative to where they are rather than actually dry…
The wind is back tonight, it’ supposed to peak at about 3am and then die down, fingers crossed it does and the boat runs.
There isn’t much in the way of other news really – the kids have been home doing pre Christmas stuff the last couple of days – they are happy enough left up here in the warm to play while we go a-winkling. Tomorrow is the nativity play and on Friday it’s a kids Christmas party. We want to get the pigs moved and the wind turbine up but other than that we are done with any real jobs and next week is going to be all about Christmas. I’ve been going through photos of the last year and reminding myself of all that is amazing and great and good about life here but the fact is Ady and I are exhausted and just need a rest from the relentlessness of surviving here in a caravan in a harsh winter. I can use all the positive thinking in the world and know that this is the right place for us but we have hit the sort of wall that can only really be circumnavigated by a big helping hand or an uplift of some sort. I am hoping a happy family Christmas with the possibly promise of a really good Hogmanay might just do that for us.
hugs and love x x x
Comment by hharicot — 19 December 2013 @ 10:35 pm