The thread (see what I did there?!) throughout the day was the Sock. I have turned the heel which felt rather like some sort of dark art and am now knitting in the round (also a black magic) before finishing the toe. I may well wear my pants on the outside once I have finished this and fully expect people to laud me as inspirational all over facebook.
Ferry this morning to collect animal feed and an order from the local butcher. It was a nice atmosphere down at the pier with lots of chit chat and laughter. We dropped the car off in the village and walked home but not before Ady had managed to knock over two cartons of milk which split open and leaked all over the shop floor. He has a reputation for dairy breakages so was very embarrassed. I paid for them (well one of them, Jinty refused to take money for both) and took him home!
Back home for lunch which was pancakes as we had rather a lot of milk 😉
The afternoon was knitting, drawing, some teaching Bonnie new tricks, dismantling the old feed store area… I’ll let you work out who did what of the four of us 😉
At 5pm Ady and I walked back to the village to collect the veg. We stopped for a beer and a chat before walking home. We had planned to drive but Chainsaw Dave offered to look at the back door of the Pajero and Ady is helping Ranger Mike move some heavy stuff downstairs tomorrow so we decided to leave it there as we can’t get across the river just now anyway. Neither of us had a working torch (mine had been in my pocket and must have been on as it was flat) and we didn’t have phones either. We decided to go for it and were fine almost all the way but I slipped climbing the croft hill and am worried I have further injured my knee – we’ll see how it is in the morning…
I cooked – potato gratin (using up that milk!), pork chops, sugar snap peas in garlic and butter and a creamy gingery sauce made by deglazing the pan. Friday night is pizza night so this was my nod towards romantic meals 😉 Scarlett made the bread today and it rose furiously, it looks good baked too, hurrah for my little homesteader 🙂
We watched some Friends and some Will and Grace. W&G is losing it rather but the kids are getting into Friends so we have ordered the next series. They are both very excited about Valentines Day tomorrow so I need to go to bed incase they are excited enough to get up early!