As in I’m at work skiving and thought I’d update my blogs 🙂
Mad weekend following a mad week – on Saturday morning we went to the boat and off came Sue and Tober from Tombreck who had read an article I wrote in the WWOOFing newsletter about the trials of getting drakes and offered to bring us two unwanted drakes to start us off breeding ducks. They are kharki campbells which look like big mallards (so the drakes are really pretty) which will create an interesting hyrid with our white girls :). Also on the boat was Steve who wanted a lift back to the village with his stuff so our car was full of ducks and luggage 🙂 We took Sue and Tober’s stuff to the Kabin where they were staying and then Ady took them to Jinty’s shop where they had ordered some food. Meanwhile Davies, Scarlett and Bonnie had appeared so I walked with them round to the village. We went home for lunch and then a big group of Friends of Kinloch Castle arrived at the croft organised by Vikki to help set up the community polytunnel.
That was an interesting experience 😉 We have made headway with it this weekend, assisted also by Tober who joined in and got bossed about by the self appointed leader of the friends. Many tools got broken by heavy handed use and I am not at all sure the frame is up according to how it was intended but we are close to ready to put the plastic on which we would not be without their help.
Vikki came back for a glass of wine or three once we’d waved them all off and she reduced the number of them coming back the next day to just four which helped a lot.
On Sunday we had the four friends, Tober came back tp join in, Vikki, Ady and I and we made some more progress but at the same too many chiefs not enough indians rate as the previous day. Ady got our dinner on and we had intended to be eating fairly early but things conspired against that including Sue appearing on her way home from her walk to see if Tober was still with us (he’d left a couple of hours previously!). We watched Frankenweenie which seemed classic Tim Burton and didn’t hold my attention so I got to tangling up then untangling my skein of wool from Harris instead.
This morning I’m at the school but have mostly been blogging and trying to work out stuff to do with the bunkhouse, this afternoon I have a Visitor Management Group meeting and tomorrow nursery is closed but I am letting an engineer in and then meeting Fliss for events planning and ISCAPE stuff. Gav and Laura arrive tomorrow and Kate and Ian are back for the summer too. Always busy!