Yesterday – the boat was cancelled although actually the morning was quite fine and I latterly regretted not having got outside while it was ok but instead I started a new bag and did some online stuff. I made wraps for lunch and we watched some stuff online. It was quite a lazy day really. In the afternoon we listened to loads of Desert Island discs and sat infront of the fire.
At 6 ish we all headed down to the village to pop to the shop before going along to Bayview for Mike’s leaving party. It was not terribly well attended but those who were there had a nice enough time. I got to do singing which always makes for a good evening in my view 🙂 The kids left around 930pm and got a lift part of the way with Fliss, we left around 11 and were home around 113opm.
Today the weather was nice this morning so after Popmaster and a failed attempt at a seeded loaf I went and picked brambles for a couple of hours while Ady did some stuff with the electric pig fence. I picked loads in and around the croft – fingers crossed my jam jars arrive tomorrow as I have a real stash of brambles to make jam with and want to get that done. We had lunch and then Ady and I went down to the pier to meet the boat, putting a load of washing on en route. Some of our expected stuff came off the boat but not all. I did manage a chat with Lesley who came down and and Fliss and we picked up a gas bottle as they arrived on the boat. We came back, reloaded all the stuff into the Rangerover and drove back to the croft. We unloaded everything, put an empty gas bottle into the car to take back down and had a cup of tea before heading back down again to return the car. We walked into the village to check for post, put the washing into the tumble drier and grab some bits from the shop.
We fed the pigs when we got back and it started to rain just as we came in and hasn’t stopped yet – definitely the best of the weather enjoyed today!
I rang my parents. We had a mishmash of dinner tonight – there is another Great Potato Crisis of 2016 with none to be had at the shop so Ady dug out a packet of Smash for Scarlett and we found some frozen roast potatoes at the shop for the rest of us. Ady made cauliflower cheese for the other three and I made steak pie for everyone. We watched Bill which arrived in the post and was pretty good. We’ve been really enjoying series 1 and 2 of Yonderland from Lovefilm – if you’ve not seen it already I highly recommend. It’s written and stars lots of the Horrible Histories cast and this film, Bill also stars many of the same actors and tells the story of Shakespeare. Very good.
It’s blowing a hooley out there tonight, rain lashing at the windows and supposed to pretty much carry on this way until about Wednesday next week. Autumn has definitely arrived.