Ali resigned from the IRCT board a couple of weeks ago so last week she asked me if I was up for doing something together today while the board meeting was happening. Her resignation was not a happy or amicable one and she was feeling she wanted to be distracted and also to do something nice instead. So we decided to go to Canna for lunch. Wednesday summer ferry timetable means you can get to Canna for two hours. We’ve done it a few times but always on the way to the mainland rather than just for the heck of going to Canna.
We confirmed after looking at the weather forecast yesterday and met at the pier this morning. The boat was a tiny bit choppy but we drank tea and chatted and talked to Gena who is the catering manager on board the boat for a while too. Then we walked along to the Canna cafe, being first off the boat and knowing the way meant we beat the rush. We had paninis and a glass of wine. It was gorgeous sunshine and so we sat with our sunglasses on, looking across at Rum, drinking our wine, watching a sea eagle soaring and generally feeling quite decadent and indulgent. So we had a second glass of wine!
We popped in the wee community shop and chatted to Stuart there for a while about fish farms and community stuff before heading back to the ferry. Ali spotted wee bottles of prosecco at the counter so we had one of those each and then a cup of tea while chatting to Gena some more on the way back. We walked along to Fliss’ for a catch up chat with her to find out how the meeting had gone, then all walked round to the shop together. I collected the post, talked to Derek, then talked to Lesley and finally headed for home.
Ady had been busy chopping wood and generally tidying up stuff for the day.
My phone shattered last night – I cracked the touchscreen about a month ago and last night the whole back (which was glass) just suddenly shattered into thousands of tiny pieces. I’ve been reading online that it appears to be quite common, they seem to get too hot and then break, wonder if they are somehow pressurised to keep them waterproof and they then can’t cope with the running system making them too hot. I have emailed them to see if it can be sorted but don’t really expect much, so I have put the sim card in my previous phone which I had passed on to Scarlett but she has never used. It took ages setting it back up again with everything and it’s only half done now but at least I have a working phone while I wait to hear if they will sort it, or consider trying to replace the screen and back panel myself.