Walking in the rain

I was woken in the middle of the night last night with the thought ‘Ady has the light on’. I quickly added to that thought with ‘and he is standing on the bed dancing’. He infact was not dancing but did indeed have the light on and was standing on the bed as the bulging roof was leaking in the rain and our bed was getting steadily wetter. It often leaks through the light fitting (not such a concern when you are on 12v rather than mains!) but the actual noise of the dripping had woken him. The sleeping bag we actually sleep inside had not gotten wet as we have another sleeping bag laid out over the top of it and he had laid a towel out too. Bit shite though 🙁

So it rained and rained and rained and rained all night but was fairly still wind-wise. This morning the burns and waterfall and river were really, really high and Ady had to rescue the dustbin which was now in the river rather than about 25foot to the side of it. Everything else on the croft was fine though. We did Popmaster and then we donned our oranges and headed off to the pier to meet the boat. We took Bonnie and the wagon although Gav picked us up when we were almost there. It was a busy boat with Mel, Vikki, Sorcha, Nell and Sandy coming off – Sandy with a friend to collect a load of his stuff and head back to the mainland again, still insistent he is not coming back. Also Karl from Eigg came off between boats. Gav and Laura went off on the second boat as Laura’s granddad died so they are heading back south for the funeral and some visiting of parents etc while they are there. More unsettlednesss on the island with the brief appearance of Sandy.

Ady wanted to see him and offer some help, I was less inclined to join the circus and conscious of the kids at home waiting so I took Bonnie home and started on lunch. Ady followed not long afterwards and was back in time for cheese on toast which always seems to take forever to cook but is always worth it.

I then left the others to it and went down to Deb’s to do some more learning of spinning. I get the idea of it but what is really required is practice, so if someone could just happen upon a spinning wheel and send it to me that would be great 😉 Had a nice chat with Deb though and we walked to the shop together where I had arranged to meet Ady to collect veg. While I was there I got an email from Fliss saying at the most recent board meeting they had been discussing director resignations and wondered if I would reconsider mine and rejoin the board as things have shifted about a bit. Not sure what I will do on that one just yet, far more pondering required.

Back home we arrived with literally seconds to spare before it started to hail. We so often get in just before weather comes in, although we just as often seem to be caught in it. It has not stopped all night and is now pretty windy too. Forecast for tomorrow is wind and rain all day so we’re planning an at home indoors with internet on all day day. Lots of reading and knitting for me then 🙂