A day on the croft 🙂 Ady tried to do a photoblog and has very comprehensively taken photos of his every move but I failed to explain that actually it’s supposed to demonstrate how Home Ed looks for us, rather than a pictoral monologue of his day ;). Will try again!
The kids and I got up and breakfasted and then we headed to the croft. We’ve been meaning to completely empty the horse box and restack it properly and also move it so that was on the agenda today. The sun was really hot again so everyone was suncreamed and sunhatted up. We got the whole horse box emptied out and found evidence of mouse having got into Bonnie’s dog food and then found the actual mouse. We were all very rubbish with it though, hoping Bonnie might have some instinct kick in and expecting her to get it while we all shouted at her to do so. I got the closest to it and should have stamped on it as it was totally bewildered at all the people and animals but I was bare footed so didn’t. Eventually it did a runner!
By then it was lunchtime so we headed back to the static. The group of students that we talked to had brought up all their leftover food from their self catering and donated it to us so we had a real feast of chocolate biscuits, crisps and fruit AND Ady has topped up his pot noodle stash :). The guy who brought it up gave Ady a lovely little speech about how they’d found us really inspirational and interesting :).
We needed to go and meet the ferry – semi-expecting a food shop but the kids chose to go back to the croft. There was nothing for us on the boat but we helped get stuff off for the shop and gave Vikki a lift home and arranged to meet her for a beer at the shop later. Then we drove to the croft as we wanted to move the horse box. We’ve not driven there since our first day here as the rains have washed away part of the road and a culvert crossing the river but we decided to just go for it. It was fine and we managed to get the horse box all the way to the top of the croft where it looks so much better than just dumped inside the gate and will not be in the way now. It also gives us a bit of a shelter for higher up the croft where we’re planning on camping.
As we pulled past the river we saw not only Davies and Scarlett but also Tom and Barbara the pigs! They had followed the kids down to the river and were loving a refreshing wallow in the water 😆
The kids (and dog) enjoyed paddling (and in Scarlett’s case full body slams) in the river while Ady and I went through the boxes, sorted out stuff to bring to the static and stuff to repack in the horse box and then Ady drove it back up in car-loads to the horse box. It is now only about a third full and is all organised with walkways through it and no food left inside. A job well done :). The kids grabbed the geomags and went back to the static before us.
Finally by about 6pm we had everything back where it needed to be, fed the pigs and dropped the car off at the static, gathered the kids and were drinking a well deserved beer in the sunshine. A chance and rather silly conversation with Fliss on Monday night seems to have resulted in a proper event being planned for August 4th – Midge Fest! More on that to follow but I think it could be lots of fun :).
We chatted a bit about stuff to celebrate the Queen’s jubilee and have some ideas for that. Then back to the static for dinner – Ady made burgers and chips, I made coleslaw while we listened to music.
Today I was up early with Ady to feed animals, meet the ferry and grab some online time as we’re planning on camping up at the croft tonight. We have loads of stuff to burn for a campfire, sausages and marshmallows to eat, a fully charged power pack to listen to Eurovision on the radio and for the very first time enough land to camp out on and still be at home :).
Hey! I’d still like to see Ady’s day as a photoblog!
Comment by Mich — 26 May 2012 @ 12:53 pm