Life eh? Today I became a director of another company and got my official recognition of my self employed status. Not at all sure I have ever been so busy and earned so little!
We had plans to sort out the horse box today but the morning rather ran away from us and then it was Popmaster o’clock. We’ve had some initial drawings back from Corin who is designing a cottage for us so we looked at those and discussed house plans for a while. Then Ady and I took the dirty washing and headed down to the castle.
We stuck the wash on and then bought some DG notes from Vikki, called at Fliss’ to collect some stuff from the freezer and the keys to the gas cage and then got three of the four gas bottles we had paid for and took them up to the croft. The car has not been up the hill for weeks but we were really keen to get it to the static with the bottles as they are crazily heavy to carry up the hill. We made it and loaded the car up with two empties, had some lunch and then headed back down again. This time to meet the boat and put the empties in the gas cage and collect the last full one.
We were hoping for dog food and a sack of flour on the boat but nothing came off for us. We came back with the last bottle via the castle to swap the washing into the tumble drier. I made a banana cake with some of the huge ripe banana glut we seem to have (along with a kiwi glut – the other 3 all suddenly start eating loads of a particular fruit so I order more the following week and then they all stop – I’ve yet to get the hang of anticipating 4 days in advance what fruit and veg we’ll be needing next week when we’re only 3 days into this weeks delivery!). Then I walked down to the village as I had a meeting about becoming a director of Rum Enterprise (a group set up to make money for the trust – first and currently only project being a bunk house we are hoping to get funding for from the Lottery).
Ady and the kids arrived in the car just as we finished the meeting which was excellent timing. They’d collected the washing and delivered some eggs to the castle – we’ll have had our best month yet in egg sales in October, reckon we’ll top the £50 mark thanks to the ducks laying fairly reliably and there being a very good market for duck eggs here too. We stayed for a beer / coke and chat. Ian and Kate are heading home to Wales next week so it feels like the island is starting to empty. People are talking about going away for Christmas, Steve is thinking he’ll take the winter off from the yurt and stay with his Mum, Claire and James are off for a months holiday and there are no non-islanders here at all at the moment.
Back home for dinner and we watched Labyrinth which had arrived from Lovefilm on the recommendation of at least 3 different people. The kids quite liked it but Ady fell asleep and I thought it was rather dated but totally Jim Henson.
I meant to be in bed ages ago – we’re up at 7am tomorrow to do bird ringing. Somehow I never manage even the most needed early nights!