Thursday – A one boat day instead of two. We went down to collect a delivery of wine – Aldi are doing wine deliveries and had some good offers on with free delivery.  I got a crate of fizz and a crate of white for under £50 which is an excellent price. Even Jinty’s cheapest of all cheap white (white is basically vinegar!) is not that cheap. In the morning there had been some online facebook based drama with Fliss which had had her upset so Ali and I made a very obvious show of supporting her at the pier too which was good. We went to the freezer and then Ady collected some washing and some firewood which Mr Rhys had chopped up for us while I carried a sack of cat food from Fliss’ car into the house for her as she has a bad back. We collected the post and then came home.
We had lunch and had planned to move seaweed and firewood around a bit but the weather prevented it as Gertrude swept in.
Friday – A bad nights sleep all round and aside from going out to feed the animals, walk the croft and check all was well we didn’t do much else. We watched a cartoon adaptation of Animal Farm which was interesting and provoked discussion about political ideologies, ate pizza and watched Doctor Who.
Saturday – Another windy night. I’d got up in the night to take the clock down and move some candles around as it had gotten really windy again. We had to go to the village to collect stuff from the freezer and post Lovefilm even thought the boat today was cancelled so in a weather window this morning Ady and I did that. Ali had messaged to say she might come up this afternoon and her and Eve arrived with brownies shortly after we got back. They stayed for a couple of hours chatting, Ady went out to empty the two wheelbarrows of seaweed he and I had brought back with us onto raised beds but the almost constant rain, hail, snow and wind meant I didn’t venture out again. I did manage to dehydrate the milk and water kefir grains in preparation for us going off next week but that’s about all. It’s died down a bit now and tomorrow is supposed to be better so we are planning to get laundry done and have been invited to Fliss’ for chocolate cake too.