Not at all sure what happened on which days so an overview post.
On Friday Mum & Dad arrived, along with Peter – the man who made contact with us after the Fogle Show and has been in almost constant contact ever since. Mum had been ill on the boat over so took some getting off, meanwhile Peter and Steve the Man were also hanging about. In the end Ady and Dad drove along to the cabins with everyone’s stuff, while Peter, Mum, Steve and I walked along to there. We dropped off their stuff and then carried on for the croft. Mum & Dad didn’t have too much stuff, enough to fit in two wheelbarrows which Ady and I pushed up to the croft. By the time we finally got home Mum was feeling better so after a restorative cup of tea and chat we left Mum & Dad here with the kids and went down to meet the second boat which our new wind turbine (courtesy of Peter) was coming off on. Various other deliveries came off too so it was another wheelbarrow job back to the croft.
Fortunately an earlyish night as everyone was tired.
Saturday morning was really stressy for me – I had a shop full of people = Peter, Steve, my parents, Fliss, all coming in and out ranting about each other and being generally full on. I went off in the afternoon to do bramble picking, I think Dad came with me.
The rest of the week merges rather but there was lots and lots of bramble picking – I think I have made about 30 jars of jam this week, various people have come with me at various times, including at least two big bramble picking walks and chats with Dad which I really enjoyed. I also really enjoyed a solo bramble walk this afternoon after everyone had gone.
I had a directors meeting which included Peter on Monday morning, that was actually quite productive. I am looking forward to stepping down though. Peter and Steve and Fliss came up for lunch on Tuesday – that was mostly interesting but a little drawn out. There is probably more to say about Peter at some point but I’m still processing it all just now.
I was on the radio again, this time about my midge jewellery. Our shed finally got properly ordered and is on it’s way. Yay! We also ordered a charge controller thingie for the wind turbine, coming from America.
I did a *lot* of cooking, infact 6 out of the 7 nights that Mum & Dad were here. For 6 people, in stressy conditions. It bought out the Christmas Camp Nic in me 😉
The stags have been roaring like mad, it’s so atmospheric. Looking forward to getting across to Kilmory next weekend maybe. Me and the kids are heading off, either tomorrow or Monday (weather is looking iffy for Monday so have booked a precautionary Premier Inn room for tomorrow night incase we have to dash off early although it is looking less dreadful as it gets closer so fingers crossed we’ll be off Monday), Ady is staying home with Bonnie to eat chilli every day and watch war films! We’re planning on doing some touristy stuff in FW like the cable car, maybe bowling and lots of staying in the room watching TV, using wifi and having baths. Davies has his hospital appointment which will hopefully mean him signed off on Wednesday and we have a night with our friends before coming home on Friday.