Ady was off to work this morning. I woke early and laid in bed reading for a while before getting up. I labelled up the midges in resin keyrings and pendants I made yesterday and a scarf I finished yesterday too ready to take down to the shed. The kids got up and we all walked down to the village together, dropping the stuff off in the shed and collecting some eggs to take to Jinty’s shop. The kids were off meeting up with Evie and Poppy and they have mostly spent the day roaming around in a posse of four, they seem to have really clicked which is great as E and P will in theory be visiting Rum fairly frequently. They live local-ish on the east coast but their Dad Dan is with Claire and it seems to be pretty serious so that’s good. Excellent to have more older kids around the place.
I called in to Ady and then walked along to the shop to drop the eggs off and buy a few bits, then back to Ady. I chatted to Fliss for a while outside the shop, nice to catch up with her. Ady and I walked back with various stuff including post from today, dinner for tonight and tomorrow, shopping and laundry and a load of out of date yoghurts from the shop for the pigs. We sat on the sporran with a cup of tea and then opened the post to find the electric fence wire had arrived so we decided to finish off the new pig pen and move Barbara, Waddles and Ben Fogle over onto fresh ground as their current pen was just a mud bath. Ady had already set up all the posts so it only took an hour or so to run the fence around and then get the three pigs into the new area. Then a further hour or two of dismantling the old house and moving that across – made all the trickier due to said mud bath. Then moving the standpipe the tap is on for all the pigs water and setting that up. B, W and BF look so happy and were playing like tiny piglets all frolicking about. It was lovely 🙂
I watered the polytunnel and fixed a small tear in the cloches over the strawberries which was going to start ripping bigger in the winds or encourage a curious chicken to go and investigate if not mended while Ady put the kettle on. Then I decided to walk back down to collect some frozen venison pie filling which I had planned to take out in the morning but changed my mind about and decided to defrost overnight so I can make the pies in the morning instead – they are for an order along with 4 loaves of bread, jam and eggs for some visitors arriving on Monday so that will be my morning’s task tomorrow. I met Davies, Scarlett, Evie and Poppy coming back so they walked back down with me and D&S walked E&P back along to the yurt while I was in the shop, then we all walked home together. I walked with Poppy for a bit, the younger girl, chatting about hair wraps and colours, dreadlocks and stuff as she had noticed Scarlett’s newly done hair wrap. She was really sweet :).
Back home I had a shower while Ady got dinner sorted and we watched some Warehouse 13 which had arrived in the post. We’ve been re-watching Blackadder too although we are already 3 episodes in to Blackadder goes forth so that won’t last much longer.
Amazing sunset tonight, the sky was so stunning, so hopefully a good day again tomorrow.