Another disturbed night – windtastic til gone 3am. This morning all was calm though. The ferry had been disrupted and was just calling once at 150pm rather than the usual 1135 and 2pm so we were able to listen to Popmaster after all. My dad said to me on the phone last night ‘have you been listening this week? There was one question I actually knew!’ to which I replied ‘Yes, and I said to Ady that I bet you knew that one when it came up’. I love that little connection with my Dad every weekday morning.
Then I chopped some firewood while Ady did toilet-related maintenance before it was time to head off and gather winkles to put on the boat. We got them from their various places around the bay, loaded them on the car bonnet (as the back door isn’t opening at the moment!) and double bagged them all, labelled them and stuck them on a pallet which Dave tractored on to the boat for us. A general chat with folk down at the pier including Merry Christmas hugs for Paul and Coryla who were heading off (so that’s another empty home in the village, hostel now has no staff or visitors).
New boots came on the boat for both Ady and I but we’re still waiting for a couple of presents for the kids and our petrol didn’t come, we’ve been promised Monday now.
We walked home leaving the car in the village for later and got caught in a massive hailstorm with hailstones the size of marbles and a bit of thunder and lightning. I’ll have more bruises on my legs from the hail! Home for long enough to eat some toast and have a cup of tea before it was time to head back to the village for the nativity. We did our snowflake turn, sang some festive songs and then I stayed for a second mulled wine with Lesley while the others headed home to get dinner on and let Bonnie out. I walked all the way home singing Christmas carols at the top of my voice 🙂
Tonights dvd was Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas, a triple of Disney festive cartoons which was lovely and I am finally feeling properly Christmassy. Tomorrow we’re doing some more pig house improvements and then have the kids Christmas party in the hall where Ady is playing santa. We’re hoping to get the wind turbine up on Saturday, we have Vikki up for dinner on Sunday and then we are planning to not do anything other than feed the animals twice a day for the week from Monday. Not sure when we’ll hear about the price on the winkles but at least they will be with the person who is doing the next bit with them.