I realised today that we had missed the fourth anniversary of the first time we stepped foot on Rum which was on Wednesday. 11th November. Four years since we first got off the ferry on this island, walked around the crofts, met a couple of the people here (none of whom are still here) and decided based on that 3 hour trip to head back to Sussex and apply for the croft here.
Bizarrely I was then checking back to the date of the very first blog post on here and discovered that was also 11th November. 11th November 2003 mind you, so 12 years ago but how about that for a coincidence. I have a half written blog post composing itself in my head for the wonderingwanderers blog based on our croft application and business plan written four years ago and am in the process of typing it up from the paper copy I have as the electronic copy is long since gone, lost in laptops through time. I thought it would be good to have it as a doc, on the blog somewhere to refer to but also I want to measure us against those early plans and see how we have done. Â It’s really interesting re-reading it and remembering the nights sat in Mum & Dad’s kitchen editing and reading it out to Ady before we finally walked to the post office on Scarlett’s birthday to send it. We emailed a copy too but Davies and I walked along to post a paper copy of it up here and I now have that same paper copy back as I took it from the IRCT office when we recently decided as a board that that information no longer needed to be kept and we shredded Gav & Laura’s and Lesley and I got our own ones back.
Abigail was nowhere near as bad as feared, infact it is probably a bit windier tonight to be honest, but somehow without the hysteria of the media the expectation that it must be going to get worse isn’t there so it’s just windy. This morning Ady undid the wind turbine for a while so I had internet and made the most of it, getting the Rumble newsletter finished and sent by email to those who get it that way and to the school to be printed out for everyone else. I finished the last two chapters of the HE book I’ve been helping write and did some more copy typing the croft application.
This afternoon I did some crochet – I’m making some bunting to decorate the shed shop. We watched Junior Bake Off and some of The Hunt from last week. Ady cannot stay indoors so kept heading off back outside to do various things. I made pizza dough and bread dough.
Tonight was Doctor Who and pizza followed by an episode of Warehouse 13. Tomorrow’s ferry should be bringing us all sorts of deliveries.