Friday – I had a meeting at 10am so headed down the hill for that. Ady was off working at the hostel and we both anticipated being home for midday for lunch before heading down to meet the 2pm ferry. In the end my meeting went on til 115pm and Ady carried on working. I walked all but back to the croft (infact Davies and Scarlett saw me out of the window and got the kettle on before they realised I had double backed and gone away again) having realised that Ady would never cut it that fine so I must have missed him.
I caught him up just before we got to the pier as he’d stopped to chat to Chain. We got a lift the rest of the way and then waited for the boat to arrive, it was running slightly late as it often does on a Friday.
Big Dave and Faye came off, along with a new car battery for the Jeep. We had a lift for all their stuff and the four of us walked along to the croft. We swapped the battery into the Jeep and it started straight away! 🙂 It has since started several more times and appears to have been the problem. Can’t believe how chuffed we both are that a combination of a new battery and our amateur mechanics in putting new terminals on has fixed it. Yay!
We came home (finally) for lunch and doughnuts, made pizza dough and caught up with the kids. Then we walked along the top track to the cabin and called for Dave and Faye while the kids went the bottom track and we all met down at the shop for a few beers. It was a nice evening down there with a handful of folk all on good form so we stated for a couple and came home just before it got dark for pizza and Doctor Who followed by the last two in the series of Modern Family.
I put some feta cheese on Ady and my pizzas which with both cheddar and mozarella made for super cheesey pizzas. Which is what I am blaming our dreadful nights’ sleep on. I woke at 4am and after going to the loo and getting a drink of water could not get back to sleep, so I read for a while. That woke Ady who then could not get back to sleep even when I was tired again so he got up. I think I fell asleep again about 530, not sure if he went back to sleep in the lounge or not. I felt really exhausted all day today though as a result.
We were supposed to be going to Canna for the day today for the Small Isles games but Calmac put out an amber warning for the boats this afternoon due to the weather forecast so all of us planning to go decided against it yesterday. It meant I was able to do post office today after all so I went to the village for that. Ady came down a while later and stayed for Saturday morning coffee and chats at post office having brought the car down and collected all the various things we had  in the village (slab of tinned pasta, beers, box of jam jars, food from the freezer etc). We bought all that up, had lunch, called over to the cabin for a cup of tea and chat with Dave and Faye and were back home just before the forecast weather did indeed come in.
Ady made curry and everyone has headed to bed super early, I am about to follow. Hoping for a better nights sleep despite the howling wind.