Whingey day today 🙁 It started badly when my first cup of tea of the day was just too milky, I got up too late to have breakfast so it sort of sat making me feel icky. And it was raining 🙁
I was in the office today, which means I get left to my own devices (more or less, I answered about 10 emails, took about 10 phonecalls and mastered the online booking, complicated admin system and credit card machine) so I finished the welcome information packs for the cottages and made a start on a ‘green policy’.
Ady was outside all day, waterproofed up. The kids fed the animals and did spent a little time down in the stables near Ady before coming back to find me. I’d just made an ill fated second cup of tea with milk that was lumpy 🙁 So they, rather contrite from being rubbish at going to sleep last night made me another cup and brought it over to me. That one was perfect 🙂
I don’t quite know what to do about sleeping children really – they just don’t seem tired, despite being up by about 830am every morning, having loads of fresh air and exercise, spending time immersed in creative pursuits and being challenged, eating decent food and having some down time ebfore bed. I suppose I didn’t fret so much at home because they were in their own bedrooms and therefore quiet and relaxed even if not asleep whereas now they tend to get louder and louder in their chatting to each other until the point I end up going to tell them off 🙁 No real point in trying to do much about it – we’re here for another week, then camping in our house, then off around the country again, I guess it’s just a consequence of our lifestyle and you can’t *make* someone go to sleep (she says, knowing full well she’ll be up til gone 1am yet again despite resolving every single morning to go to bed earlier when she struggles to get up with the alarm!)
Interesting conversations are at least happening again – today we learnt about bruises, different types, bleeding, why human skin and fruits both bruise but human skin heals and fruit doesn’t. Also we inspected ourselves for brusies (we all have loads) and worked out what sort they were. We also talked about tax, profits, costs, marketing and budgets. I spent some time looking at CYOA stuff online and found a cool website with a story that’s been being contributed to for years online :). Davies did some more calligraphy and Scarlett spent ages looking at a very gorgeous book I found in one on the cottages
Davies also impressed me by sorting out his own lunch today, so some definite highs :).
Ady and I have been doing some work on numbers – Rum have asked us for more idea of our costings so they can look them over in advance of the interview. This is proving slightly on the scary side as we start to think about the full implications of a house build. We’ve been emailing with Skye Homes who do kit houses and can just supply or can do the whole build. That was reassuring as the costs for delivery to Rum, along with what would be required in the way of access and machinery is all very managable and the costs were not as scary as we’d feared. We’ve also been emailing Rum regarding stuff like electricity, water and so on and have had an initial email back with more to follow. Argh to it just being the wrong time of year to drive up there and spend a month in a tent getting our heads round everything and understanding just what it will all entail while getting to know the community – and of course seeing the Northern Lights ;).
It’ll all be fine, we just feel quite disconnected from it at the moment and the costs of getting to the interview are looming large. We’ve been invited to stay on Eigg which we’d all like to do but doesn’t seem feasible with the ferry crossings. More frustration!
I spent ages this evening wrestling with Ady’s tablet which keeps crashing and needing a hard reset then not recognising the account for the android apps *and* I’ve also been failing to follow a crochet pattern for a bowl too. Maybe I need to spend tomorrow just trying things I know I can manage without any problems…