I’ve just been reading January’s posts to start writing a 2015 round up and was most amused to see that we are doing the almost exact same things just now as we were this time last year.
Post office this morning to send Mum & Dad’s present to them, it cost 95p so well worth getting it posted here free with other orders and then sending it on 🙂 We got a few bits from the shop and then headed off to the boat. We had quite a few parcels come off and gave Steve the Man a lift back to the village. Dr Butt the worm guy has been over but we’d not seen him so far this visit so caught up with him at the pier. Had a nice chat, talked about the TV as he’d seen it and general chit chat.
We collected laundry from the castle, put some credit in the workshop electric meter and got some stuff from the freezer, went to where Mr Rhys had cut down some more wood for us and loaded that into the car, collected the post from Derek, paid Mr Rhys for the wood and then drove to the fork to transfer everything from the Jeep into the Rangerover. We left it at the bridge as the river is too high to cross at the ford but we can wheelbarrow the wood from there tomorrow and it can start drying out left in the car anyway. We brought everything else up, literally just getting in before the rain came.
I unpacked everything, folded laundry etc, Scarlett made lunch, Davies helped put stuff away and Ady made drinks. We watched The Apprentice with lunch. Then Ady untied the wind turbine and the kids did stuff on tablets, Ady had some outside stuff to do and I got out all of the presents that have arrived so far. I’m still waiting for 3 deliveries but all should be here Saturday if we get a boat. Annoyingly I’d ordered a small gift for Scarlett which is showing as due to arrive in mid January – not sure if I just didn’t notice when I ordered it or whether they have changed the date. It has been despatched but is from Hong Kong so may or may not arrive. Ah well. I’m planning an afternoon of wrapping at the weekend, need to get some wrapping paper from Jinty.
There is supposed to be a Christmas Fayre in the hall on Sunday, an all encompassing mince pie contest, secret santa exchange, school play, Christmas turn type party and Debs has asked if people could do a song or poem or joke or similar. I wanted to sing a song but no one here will sing with me so I have recorded one part of Baby It’s Cold Outside on my phone to sing with myself – a Goddard duet can still happen even if it’s just me doing it! 🙂
Christmas films were two budget animations tonight – The Littlest Light which I picked up in a charity shop in Fort William because it had a character called Timothy in it, and Santa Claus Brothers which had been 30p in the second hand dvd shop in Inverness back in the summer.
Tomorrow is firewood and festive baking.