Monday – Ady and I called into the shop in the morning for a few bits and then went along to the schoolhouse as Ady had offered to help Stuart and Julie fit a sofa into their moving van. In the end they had run out of room so decided not to take it but been unable to reach us to let us know. We ended up going into the school for a cup of tea and chat with Stuart, Julie, Deb and the girls. Stuart offered us their old fish boxes used as containers for planting and a few other bits and pieces. We took an aluminium frame which they used as a chicken enclosure and will probably be useful to us as a broody bird  / nursery pen during the summer and some rolls of chicken wire. They also had an old mower which they could not get to work but Ady thinks he probably can. The irony of a mower for use on 8 acres is not lost on me even if Ady thinks it might be useful 😉
Back at home I made the bread dough I’d made earlier into rolls while Ady finished off the chicken soup he’d made from Sunday’s roast chicken remains. Lovely lunch 🙂 We watched a couple of downloaded episodes of Comic Relief Celebrity Bake off which were very funny. I did some online stuff, Scarlett did painting, Davies was looking at stuff online too. It snowed lots.
Tuesday – I had a meeting this morning and went round to Ali’s for a pre meeting meeting and cup of tea or two. The meeting went well, Ady picked me up afterwards and we came home for lunch. It has been alternately blizzarding and bright blue skies all day with a side order of very gusty high winds but between blizzards Ady and I went out and walked the area we’re planning to move the pigs to, checking the fence and working out where to put their house. We then checked on the pigs and as we were walking back along the bottom of the croft so Bonnie went mad and ran at the river barking and there were two goats. There are several hundred on Rum living feral mostly out in the wilds so this was a bit of a shock.
The kids (my children, not the junior goats!) and I walked back down to see them some more and get a closer look. Later Ady threw them a handful of pig feed, not sure if they’ll stay and frankly we don’t need additional mouths to feed if they are not actually of use on the croft but Scarlett is delighted at the prospect of goats 🙂
I spent an hour or so chopping wood which was really difficult in the wind – it kept blowing the wood off the chopping block. Later I rang my parents and had a good long chat with them. Eureka had arrived from Lovefilm so we watched a couple of episodes of that this evening.