Not literally, obviously.
Monday – Was mad windy. Boat cancelling, turbine tied up windy. At least some of us went to the village to the freezer but I am not at all sure of which combination of us it was. I must have been outside at some point though because I do remember it being very windy indeed.
Tuesday – We all went down to the village in the morning. Scarlett and I posted her very overdue parcel to her friend in Ireland – a combined Christmas and birthday parcel, then we all went into the hall as Marine Harvest fish farm were over to chat to the community about various fish farm off Rum updates. Interesting, a shame so few people turned up. I like Chris the high up manager bloke, met him quite a few times. He looks a lot like David Cameron and has the same politicians way about him that makes him slightly untrustworthy in that ‘you can trust me’ type way in a business way but I think he’s a generally nice bloke and very good at remembering details about people that have come up in conversation.
Back at home I got venison pie filling cooking and then went out to feed the animals with Ady.
Wednesday – in the morning I spent some time in the walled garden. I planted out garlic, onion sets and some seed potatoes. The soil under the raised beds I have mulched is amazing, really rich and dark, well drained and crumbly. So pleased that I have managed to improve soil, be excellent if I can actually grow something in it this year.
Lots more ukulele-ing and then Crafternoon for me. Had a really good chat with Ali while Fliss was out collecting the girls from school. Nice to reconnect a bit with her. Home for steak and chips for dinner.
Thursday – In the morning Ady and I went down to get some bits from the shop and theoretically collect the post except we managed to collect instead the pre-post delivery of a prescription inhaler for me and a parcel which Derek the postman had already left in the car which we use as our post box, failing to realise until we were practically home again that maybe he had not actually sorted the post at that point. So Davies and Scarlett went back to collect it later.
Ady and I cut down some dead branches from a tree at the bottom of the croft, bought them back up and split them for firewood. More ukulele-ing including finally cracking La Vie En Rose which was one of the two songs I most wanted to learn. Hurrah.
Friday – today – We had made sure we didn’t need to visit the village today. It was a mostly grey day despite the forecast being for sunshine. This morning I made pizza dough, practised ukulele-ing and did the Rum Rumble monthly newsletter. After lunch I spent a couple of hours cutting chicken wire into strips and stapling it onto the wooden path that Ady had built up to the caravan so it doesn’t get slippy when it’s wet or muddy. It turned into a lovely evening so we had our last cup of tea outside, watched the stars appear and the moon rise. I rang my parents and we had pizza for dinner.
This blog is very blah blah blah these days with not much actual talk of Davies & Scarlett and what they are up to. Given it’s fairly select readership I might start writing a bit more about them here so that I have a record for them to read at some future point.