Filled with good intentions (the sort the road to hell is paved with….) I have a partially composed post in draft about where D&S are now which has distracted me from the daily / sort of daily blogging and meant nearly 2 weeks have passed.
Two weeks in which we have:
- Spent a day mincing, mixing and sausage stuffing to fill the freezer with 45kg of Blackie sausages. They are delicious, by far the nicest sausages we have ever made. There is much to be said about slow grown meat.
- Invested in a self-basting pot roaster and done lots of research on pressure cookers. The Blackie joints are full of flavour but tough on texture so required a slow roast. The couple I have tried have been delicious tasting but a little on the dry side so we bought a roaster to help with slow cooking them. Our electric slow cooker is one of the kitchen aids I am most looking forward to getting back out and using once we have mainland power again. So far though the roaster is a win.
- Ady has done a few days work with Internet Ian, the Hebnet guy getting cables, towers and other IT related stuff up hills. Some with Bad Neil, some with Sean, all with Ian. He’s come back very cold and very wet but £15 an hour better off and enjoying the challenge.
- Bob Pig is now in with Barbara, BenFogle & Waddles pig. This is going tentatively well with some pig political wrangling still to be ironed out.
- Davies and I have started watching Hannibal together. It’s pretty dark, no actually it’s very dark but it’s also pretty good. We’re enjoying it. Can totally see why it’s an 18.
- Prosecco Mairi came! She arrived on the Saturday morning boat and stayed til Monday afternoon. We had a lovely few days, lots and lots of prosecco drunk, a visit down to the shop to catch up with Rum friends, some late night heart to hearts. All good.
- I’ve done a lot of logistic. The whole of April with spill over into late March and early May is full with people coming to visit, us going off and all the organisation that entails. Car booked on and off Rum, ferries planned, accommodation arranged and contacting various family and friends to confirm, arrange and work out who will be where when. Looking forward to it lots. Also know come the second week in May we will be very ready to breath deeply, sleep in our own beds and not have anyone kipping anywhere else in the caravan!
- Played much ukulele. My new one arrived, a £40 concert uke to replace the tenner soprano one I started on. I actually have callouses on the ends of three of my fingers and they are perpetually numb. I am reliably informed this means progress has been made. I’m getting there with chord changes, strumming patterns, finger picking and even singing while I play. A very steep learning curve but I am really enjoying it.
Which I think brings me up to date and reminds me once again to get back to that draft post….