Yesterday I used the blog to find out the exact date of Lorna’s birthday as I am never sure just when in early June it is and rather embarrassingly could not actually recall how old she is about to be either. I used to be sooo much better at blogging and having sensible blog post titles, which is really useful when you are playing detective like that. 10 years from now entitling a post Sunday & Monday won’t really assist. Mind you using random song lyrics probably won’t either and I did that for years!
Yesterday morning I started fab sealing the tent while Ady scythed the spot we were planning on putting it. Ady put Kira outside in a dog crate for a while thinking she would enjoy the sunshine but she hated the crate and just miaowed constantly for about 10 minutes until I took her out. She stayed close to me for a while but then got a bit bolder and as I was barefoot so I could walk over the tent I was edgy about being able to dash after her so I put her back in the house. I bought her out again later in the day and several times again today. She is pretty fine and has walked all around the outside of the caravan exploring, checked out under the horse box, the pizza oven, the wood shed. She gets nervous about Bonnie outside though and I am still too worried about her getting spooked and dashing off then not being able to find her way back. So far if she gets afraid she runs back into the caravan and is quite good about coming when you call her. Another week or so with regular forays into outside while we’re about and I am sure I will feel more relaxed about it and she will be fine. She makes me very happy though, I am so delighted to have her 🙂
We had lunch and then Ady put some waterproofing stuff on the caravan roof on a spot where it’s been leaking in heavy, straight down rain (which we don’t get often really!) while I started painting some welly boots to be a welly trail to lead people to the croft. There is Sign Wars happening down in the village with the various craft shops, bike hire and so on, mostly between Fliss and Kate but it does mean we need to also maintain a presence otherwise it looks like the A frame advertised craft shops are all there is. Ady had the brilliant idea of painting old wellies to mark the way to the croft so have decorated ten boots and we’ll stick them along the way tomorrow on the way back from the Sheerwater.
All that done we moved the bell tent. Unfortunately it did not pitch very well and we were forced to conclude the slope on the bit of ground we had chosen was probably too steep. So we chose another bit higher up the hill and a bit flatter. Ady went to scythe it while I watered the polytunnel and did some more welly painting.
Today Ady woke me ringing the CoOp to pay for today’s shopping at 7am and I couldn’t get back to sleep. I read for an hour and then got up and was outside painting wellies in the sunshine by 830am – unheard of! Ady was whittling tent pegs from some green wood he’d cut and we set the radio up outside. It was really nice and we had Kira out with us a bit. Ady drilled holes in the bottom of all the wellies so we can put stakes though them so they won’t blow away.
Off to the boat for quite a lot, but not all of the deliveries we’re waiting on. CoOp came, part of the Halfords order (chairs and campbeds ordered, one chair arrived), some monthly amazon groceries stuff. We also picked up a gas bottle as we are now on our spare as the gas went out last Friday and on the way back to the croft we spotted that a fallen tree Ady had mentioned to Mr Rhys we’d pay him to cut down for us had been done and stacked beside the road so we collected that too. And some laundry we’d put on while we were at the boat. We bought the CoOp stuff up in the wheelbarrow and came home for lunch. Then back down to pump up the tyres on the Rangerover and take that up to where the Jeep was parked and transfer everything across into the Rangerover. Dr Butt, the famous worm professor drove past while we were doing that so he stopped and we chatted to him and his assistant for a while, then brought the Rangerover home loaded up and got it up the croft. All unloaded – so, so much quicker and easier than wheelbarrowing it all up here, that would have taken days.
The kids went  down to the village to watch Star Wars on Rum cinema while Ady and I moved the tent again to it’s new new spot. And finally it is looking good 🙂 I’ve ordered some cord to make new guy ropes as a lot of them are worn and frayed so we’ll replace those when that arrived. Also the groundsheet is a little bumpy as the ground below is so when we take it down to replace the guys we will re-scythe it and trample it down more. We went across to the cabin to collect the sink Dave said we can have and worked out where to set that up so it’s all coming together nicely.
Polytunnel watering, shop shutting up and in for showers and dinner. I’m worn out today and tomorrow is another busy one so for once I’m off to bed in the same  day I got out of it in!