Ady has a horrid cough. I consulted Dr Google last night and found some forum folk suggesting asthma. He always develops a dreadful, unproductive cough after a cold which lingers for weeks and has me fantasising about killing him. Last night he was in bed coughing so I went in and dug out an inhaler for him. I had thought he was awake and so going in, explaining I was on the brink of stabbing him and so therefore thought he should try the inhaler was reasonable. He was infact asleep and woke to me saying I was going to kill him, rummaging through a drawer for what he assumed was a weapon, throwing it to him and then leaving had him terrified! Or so he maintains in the rather humorous retelling of it to anyone who will listen today! 😆
10 minutes after I went to bed Scarlett woke crying and came into our bed too, so I spent the night with her next to me wriggling, blowing her nose and coughing and Ady snoring and coughing, all in our cosy double sleeping bag. It was not my most restful night ever…. :rolls:
The chimney on the log burner has burnt through and Ady had tried a quick fix on it which had lasted well but this morning when he lit it all the smoke just billowed into the room and on inspection he realised it had come undone. Another quick fix with tin foil which should last assuming its not too windy. The proper heatmate self sealing mastic stuff arrived on the boat today fortunately so tomorrow morning he can look at it again and hopefully patch it up enough to last for the 6 weeks or so left of woodburner weather.
Ady and I went down to meet the boat – we’d left the car in the village so had to walk down to collect it then drive along to the pier. We collected Vikki on the way as she was off today on holiday. Our sleeping bag (and new pillows for Ady) finally came, along with Potato Council GYOP kits. Hurrah. We stopped for various chats with various people and got home for lunch. Leftover soup for Scarlett, leftover garlic bread for me and leftover lasagne for Ady.
This afternoon we got a couple of loads of laundry done, emptied the car of all of the things in it which included a sack of flour, some peat blocks, dog food and two guitars. I fell over once in the mud. We had a communal push to finish the jigsaw so we could clear it off the table.
I tried to ring my parents but the line was really bad despite retrying a couple of times so after a very quick check in that everyone was okay up here and down there we gave up on that.
Tomorrow is more laundry and maybe some planning of crops day.