Yesterday morning I picked some brambles while Ady did stuff with pig fencing and then we went down to the pier. I dropped Ady at Deb’s to start helping load up their removal van and headed to the pier to collect a few deliveries before going back to help too. We got it all loaded pretty quickly – Fliss, Clare and Dan were there helping too. We picked a few more brambles and then came home. I made jam and made dinner and we watched Everest on dvd.
Today – I woke to a reply to an email I had sent which has irritated me all day. I am currently not replying but have ranted all over the island with friends about it. I’ve settled instead for mentally composing a reply rather than actually typing it out and sending it.
We went to the SNH office to collect a cutter – a sort of overgrown lawnmower type machine which cuts through the reeds and rushes on the croft and we have on loan for a couple of weeks. We stayed awhile chatting with Lesley, David and Ross and then headed back to the croft. I picked brambles as I went so got left behind Ady walking at the fast pace of the self propelled machine. I also got caught chatting to Fliss along the way and then some  visitors who had seen the TV show last year and wanted to chat so I was quite a long way behind him. We had lunch and while I had intentions of getting back out and picking some more I never made it as it was wild and windy with showers for the rest of the day, so I crocheted and listened to the radio instead. Ady has cut vast swathes of the croft with the machine and it looks amazing. The plan is to cut quite a bit and then let the sheep and geese graze it so that it comes back as grass. The cut stuff will be used as a mulch for the raised beds over winter.
I had worked myself up and was not actually hungry by the time I made dinner so I didn’t really eat but I will enjoy my stir fry for lunch tomorrow and fully intend much bramble picking then.