Home alone again this morning. The kids had room tidying to do so Bonnie and I took some empty Flora tubs and set off bramble picking around the croft. We did really well to get four punnets just on and around our own land 🙂 It was a perfect morning with beautiful clear blue skies and sunshine and I was perfectly happy and content :).
Back at the static I had a cup of tea, made some lunch for the kids and some sandwiches for Ady and I then went down to collect him. I arrived at Fliss & Sandy’s at the same time as Fliss so went in for a cup of tea. Norman was there too so it was all very sociable. Then to the boat for Ady to do piermaster via the castle to shove a wash on.
At the pier our plans to go to Harris with Fliss and Sandy were scuppered when a woman from Isle of Mull theatre group arrived on the boat to do a workshop. We’d agreed we go but totally forgotten it was actually happening (and I’m fairly sure it hadn’t been due to happen today) so we dashed back to get the kids and back to the hall to do that. Fliss and Joss came down too and we had a very happy couple of hours creating a map and a 3d castle as props for the performance next Saturday.
Fliss took the kids back to hers while I ran the woman back for the late boat and collected the washing from the castle. Ady was supposed to be doing swap shop clearing out with Claire but it didn’t happen. I went back for him and we went back to Fliss’. We had a cup of tea and watched a film about the SOund of Rum music festivals which took place in 2005, 2006 and 2007 organised by Sandy and Fliss. Amazing to see our island as such a different place back then.
We went back to the shop and had a really nice hour or so with the people down there this evening, one of the good nights there where we could have stayed much later but needed to get home for food, particularly when I realised we’d left the croft at 230pm and not fed the animals!!! We dashed back and Ady did belated pig feeding while I hung the washing out just about before darkness fell (it was about 8pm), then indoors to watch the Muppet Movie which had arrived from Lovefilm and have dinner.
It’s really cold at night now, we can see our breath in the static so we put the fire on for 20 minutes which warmed it up really quickly but didn’t stay. Everyone now has hot water bottles and we have several last lines of defence including heavier weight duvets, sleeping bags, warmer pjs and fire on for longer. We still have insulation and a skirt to go round the bottom of the static which will also help and Sandy has promised to do with us once their B&B is finished (next week). I am not too worried, just anticipating hefty gas bottle usage really.