Yesterday was a lovely winter Rum day, just how I was expecting it to be living here in the winter last year but wasn’t. We had the internet on all day as it was super windy, got everything charged up, the kids watched some stuff online and then we all listened to Operation Pied Piper, a Radio 2 thing from the weekend about evacuees during WW2’s stories. It was really good and sparked lots of conversations. My granny was evacuated from London to Cornwall and loved it, had a fantastic experience and visited the people she was evacuated to stay with even into my childhood 40 years later. We talked about films and books with evacuation in them (Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Peter Pan 2, Nanny McPhee 2). The we listened to Ken Robinson on Desert Island Discs which the kids had never heard before so sparked more conversations – both about Ken and about the DID concept.
Later Ady and I walked down to the village to get some bits from the shop and collect things from the freezer. I cooked and we watched the first episode of Friends, the kids are not impressed. Fortunately I’ve ordered the third series of Will & Grace as we’ve watched all of the first two series and that has been a hit. I think maybe the characters are stronger and more easy to get to know quickly.
Today we didn’t expect a boat as all week the forecast has been bad but we got one rather than two. I was cross as we’d not done a co op order on the strength of not expecting a boat 🙁 We rang Calmac in the morning to check whether our animal feed would be on boat and it was so we went to meet it. 12 bags of feed, we collected some firewood too and brought it all home before lunch. Ady did all the hard work unloading the car while I came up and got lunch sorted.
In the afternoon Ady and Davies went down to see Claire as she is paying Davies to light a fire in her yurt twice a week to keep it going while she is away for weeks over the winter so he needed to go and learn how to do it and how it all works. Scarlett and I looked at some stuff online including ordering some essential clothes for her and some festive Christmas jumpers for all four of us as a surprise for the others. We’re going to wrap them up and make everyone wear them on Christmas Day. We keep catching each others eye and giggling 🙂
They came back and brought the veg order with them. Then Ady and I walked back down later to collect more stuff from the freezer and bits from the shop. Tomorrow we don’t need to venture to the village at all and the wind is forecast to be high so another day at home listening to stuff, reading stuff, making stuff and watching stuff is on the agenda. Davies had a phone chat with Ben this evening and we have all been cast as snowflakes in the Rum nativity play.