We still have additional livestock…
Saturday – in the morning I listened to the radio and did the festive puzzle while Ady went down to post a parcel for me and pick Dave up from the boat. Â He had forgotten to collect some stuff from the freezer so we walked down together to get it and collected the post from the car too. We fed the animals and then popped over to Dave’s cabin for a cup of tea and a blether before coming in for curry and Polar Express.
Sunday – We fed the animals then took the laundry down to the cars. We wanted to take the Chevy down to the pier and it needed a jump start to get going. We put the washing on and took both the Jeep and the Chevy to the pier, replaced one of the headlamp bulbs in the Chevy as it was really dim and we’d got the spare when we were off but not had a spanner to swap it over and kept forgetting until we needed to use it again. We left the Chevy there ready for today and drove back to the castle where the washing was. It was still in the washing machine so we walked round to Fliss’ to feed her cats and fish but Debs was already there doing so, so we chatted to her for a bit (which was quite good as I suspect she would have come up to ours otherwise that afternoon) before going back to swap it over into the tumble drier. Then we walked around to Ali’s so she could show us where all the feed was for their chickens and wild birds as we are looking after them while they are away over Christmas. We hung around a bit waiting for the stuff to dry then came back to the croft for a late lunch. We fed the animals, then Ady chainsawed up some wood and I split it by which time it was pretty much dark and time to come in.
Ady cooked a lovely roast beef dinner and we ate the last of the mince pies (for now, will make more when we get home) and watched Arthur Christmas.
Today – we spent the morning packing up and getting ready to come off. It was a rough-ish crossing but not dreadful. I chatted to Dave who was coming off too after the weekend on Rum. We smuggled off a couple of jerry cans for Dave to fill up and smuggle back on again when he comes back up for Christmas so I gave him a lift to his car, we put two huge bags of clothes from the big sort out a while back into the clothes banks in the car park and then we were on our way to Fort William. The dash clock had not been put back so was an hour fast but it being already dark I believed it was 530pm because that seemed quite reasonable… so bonus extra hour when I finally realised! I collected something Ady had reserved for me at Argos, we popped into Morrisons for bubble bath, chocolate, stuff for breakfast and a bottle of wine (foolishly picked a really cheap one and it’s very disappointingly nasty, will get something nicer tomorrow!) . We checked in at the Premier Inn which was been done up since our last visit – very recently, the corridors still smell of fresh paint and watched some crap Tv while eating monster munch – living the dream!
We went across to McDonalds for food, then back for baths, more junk TV and a phonecall with Ady who is joining us tomorrow.
We’ve a busy couple of days – off to the local radio station tomorrow for Davies to have a chat about local and community radio which is something he’s interested in, a bit of shopping, then dentist for Scarlett in the afternoon. Ady’s arriving on the train late afternoon and then zoo park on Wednesday before home on Thursday.