One of the people that I was distracted by yesterday was a woman who came along with Neil, who wants to live here with his wife Grace and may one day do so if their bunkhouse project ever happens. He didn’t introduce her but we chatted and she said ‘nice to meet you’ as they left. It turns out she is a foraging expert and when chatting to someone else down in the village last night she offered to do a wee talk this evening about the stuff we have on Rum that we can eat and sell etc.
We all went down and she was so inspiring – she was full of passion and zeal and enthusiasm, bubbling over with knowledge and genuinely delighted to be sharing it with us. I feel quite overwhelmed at some of the possibilities she was talking of and it was one of those times when you sit listening to someone talk and want to jump up and cheer and agree and make them understand that you agree and already believed lots of what they were talking about before you met them so that they understand you are a bit like them because you think they are cool.
Or is it just me that feels like that about people sometimes…
Anyway, it’s been a good day. Pissed with rain from morning til now and continues to do so but a great day indoors. We did Popmaster, made soup, baked stuff for Market Day tomorrow, made signs and talked about poster design and marketing, talked about ideas for the kids to make to sell, Ady is all enthused about an off grid incubator shed so is researching that. Loads of conversations and chatting and just feeling like stuff is back on track again now I’m here in the mornings again.
I did some polytunnel stuff in the late afternoon before we went down for the talk so had some semi-outdoor time aswell.
We watched a really good Grand Designs this evening too – a revisited one going to a housing co=op in Brighton from the very first series. That was all very affirming and positive too. Much needed warm fuzzies 🙂