Second time this week I’ve heard that on the phone. First from Mum when talking about Frazer struggling to come to terms with Robin’s autism diagnosis and Kat finding it hard explaining to people why they don’t know which school he’ll be starting next year (apparently they need to wait for a further diagnosis regarding whether he can attend mainstream school or will need to go to a special needs school). Then today I spent an hour mostly listening to Julie crying down the phone. She has finally decided that actually she does need to leave Chris but is terrified at the prospect of setting it all happening. I am not actually sure quite what I would do in either situation to help by being there but it is very hard to hear and hard not to be around just for a real life hug.
This morning I did an hours crochet and now have two midges just waiting on wings before getting them in the shop. Hoping to get them winged up tomorrow morning and then get another one done on Saturday morning. Ady was at work and it was really lovely sitting in the sunshine with Kira sitting in the shade on one side of the caravan and Bonnie sitting in the sunshine on the other side. Kira has been out and about again today, pretty much coming and going as she pleases and all still seems well.
I got the kids up and Scarlett packed up lunch to take with us and we walked down to meet Ady to head off on the Sheerwater. Although it was gorgeously sunny it was also very blustery and it was actually a really rough crossing with next to no wildlife at all. Not a hint of cetaceans and barely a seabird. There were three other couples on the boat with us, one of whom I had been chatting to earlier in the week about life here. As we got off I joked to them that we always had next week, he retorted that he would console himself with a takeaway! 😀
Back at home I gathered in a load of clothes we had airing on the washing line and hung out the washing Ady had done to dry. I folded up and put away the dry aired stuff. Â One of the broody chickens had hatched some of her chicks so Ady started making a run for them, I started helping him but we kept getting distracted – we went to the bottom of the croft to gather some batten and so fed the birds as we were down there, I collected money from the shop (another scarf sold!) and started to close it when a group of people arrived so I opened it up again so they could buy some eggs. I went to water the polytunnel and pick strawberries and found the mini greenhouses had blown over (really strong north winds today) so Ady banged a post in to secure a pole across the front to keep them in place and I tied them to the frame they are already in. I reloaded them with stuff which had blown out, watered the polytunnel, picked a load of strawberries and went to help Ady some more. We looked at the compost loo which Ady has found a big mat to cover and so we have decided will be fine. Ady got a sheet of metal from the castle today to put down under the compost loo so we are pretty much ready to move that up there tomorrow. I started chopping some wood while I was waiting for Ady to need me to hold things again for the bird run when my phone rang and it was Julie so that took me to the end of my outside time for today.
A bit more midge making for me before dinner, we watched a couple of episodes of Lost tonight, had strawberries and cream and somehow it feels quite a lot longer ago than this morning I got up for the day!