Today was always going to be a bit of a write off in terms of getting much done. We needed to meet the 1135 boat to get our petrol, visit the shop for various bits, I had a meeting from 1pm and Davies had a doctors appointment at 3pm which one or other of the grown ups needed to attend with him.
So Ady and I met the boat – but when we arrived in the village to collect the Jeep we had a flat front tyre. So I did the shopping while Ady pumped it up and then we drove to the pier. It quickly went down again while we were waiting for the boat to come in and chatting to folk. Along with our petrol came an animal feed delivery, but underneath a pallet of lead so we had to wait for that to be unloaded first by which time the tyre was totally flat. Ady found a tin of puncture repair stuff that you pump in so we used that and it went up sufficiently to drive back to the village but was obviously loaded up by then with 8 bags of feed so went down again.
I went for a cup of tea pre the meeting with Ali, stopping to chat to Bad Neil along the way. Then back down via Bad Neil again, waiting for Lesley and catching up with Ady again.
The meeting was good, productive and I think the 3 of us directors and Fliss are working well together just now, being very forthright and just making decisions and sticking to them. Davies and Scarlett appeared just before the GP appointment so we walked along together (all four of us had to leave during the meeting at various points for the doctors – either for ourselves, a child or a partner). The appointment was fairly quick but will result in a referral so will have to go off to the mainland at some point to deal with that.
Back to the meeting for me – leaving Davies to meet back up with Ady and Scarlett who were still in the village trying to sort out the cars – both cars were now there with Ady unloading one into the other, bringing spare wheels down and taking stuff up to the croft.
The meeting finished at 5pm so I walked home – in daylight, yay! – to find Ady all despondent that the locking nuts on the wheel had prevented him from changing the tyres. He hates not being able to fix something himself 🙁 Big Dave is coming on Saturday though and can bring a tool to deal with that so it will be sorted this weekend. Which I think has cheered him up a little bit at least.
I had a shower – I had used some dry shampoo on my hair this morning and it had gone really sticky and horrid – yuck! Ady cooked a really lovely sausage casserole and we watched WallE which we’d been talking about re-watching for ages.