Guess which film we have from Lovefilm and has been good enough to watch twice? 😉
This morning we went down to Fliss and Sandy’s. The push is on to get their B&B ready by the end of the week as they have their first guests arriving on Friday. It will be tight but I reckon it’s doable. Ady and I helped paint all morning while the kids spent some time playing on the beach and then came in to watch a film.
Then we all loaded ourselves into their car – all nine of us plus two dogs – and drove to Harris. Tinker the dog got out half way and ran behind the car the rest of the way for a really good exercise – she was foaming at the mouth with exhertion by the time she caught us up! Sandy is a great person to explore the island with as he has just been here so long and knows the island really well.
We walked along, a bit further than we’ve ever been and sat near the feral goats having our picnic. We had a fire and enjoyed the amazing light and views while collecting beachcombed treasures. Davies and Scarlett have decided (a la Cressida Cowell) that there are dragons here on Rum and Scarlett was given some egg shaped stones by Ranger Mike so is now collecting such things believing them to be dragons eggs. She tells me some are incubated hot and some cold depending on the type of dragon.
We had a fab few hours down there before loading back up and coming home again. Ady stopped at the village to help Claire empty the shed for the newly coming Swap Shop (like freecycle!) while I took the kids and dog home to the croft, dropped them off, fed the animals and came back down. The kids had been watching Ponyo at Fliss’s and had borrowed the disc to finish watching, then watched Puss in Boots (from Lovefilm) by the time we got back.
Our new 15tog duvet arrived today, along with storm pegs for the washing line (steel reinforced core washing line arrived so we can repair our suffering line ready for spring laundry, I fear we have our final load of the year currently hanging out – it’s just too cold to dry even when it’s windy). We’re told it dropped to minus 2 last night and we all had frost on windows this morning so we feel justifed in pulling out the winter ready stops already. I’ve been googling warm socks but will hang on til after our mainland visit next week incase I find some bargains then.
Home for curry and an earlier night all round – even I’m off to bed in a minute, pre midnight thanks to the cold. Looking forward to a family day and roast dinner tomorrow.
eek to minus 2 already. If you haven’t already, put your summer duvet under on the bed so you’re lying on it. Makes it quite toasty 🙂
Beachcombing sounds fab.
Comment by Kirsty — 23 September 2012 @ 6:56 pm