Wednesdays are Crafternoons at Fliss’. I don’t really like them. It’s me, Ali, Deb and Fliss and while I do get to drink tea, chat and catch up on the gossip while being productive on the knitting front (almost a whole scarf done today) it’s all a bit nicey, nicey and far too much talking about parenting stuff and schooly things I don’t agree with.
I can’t avoid going really though without it being obvious I am not enjoying it, last week they even moved the day for me. This week the main topic of conversation was volunteering and WWOOFing though which was actually quite nice and I did more talking than I’ve done in weeks and weeks. Rum folk who have been here a long time are very bad at living in their Rum bubble and forgetting there is a world outside of our island and that people had real lives before they came here, some of which may be more interesting than what happened here on Rum yesterday or last week.
Working backwards though Ady went off to finish painting this morning and came back at lunchtime with the happy news that Lesley is pregnant. We sort of suspected she was back at Christmas but I asked and she said she didn’t know yet and a couple of times I’ve sort of asked and she’s not said so I assumed maybe she was not after all. It’s lovely, happy news and has made me smile all afternoon :). Les told Manager Mike yesterday for work purposes and then Neil said actually they didn’t want him to know before we did so Neil told Ady this morning. I caught up with them later and whispered Congratulations to Neil who then gave me a lift part way to the croft so we had a bit of a chat and I emailed Lesley to pass on congratulations too. I guess they will announce more publicly soon.
I spent the morning doing the final bits on the monthly community newsletter and getting that emailed out.
This evening Ady cooked (venison) steak and chips which was delicious.