The winds were pretty wild on Thursday and Friday nights. Autumn is definitely here.
Friday we did get a boat, despite us all speculating we might not. We went to wave Mike off – he gave us a card with some lovely things written inside, amusingly much of it similar to what I had written in his. We will not miss him as such and I think it is for his own best interests that he has moved on but it’s sad to see yet another person come – filled with hope, energy and optimism for their life on Rum – and go, not having made quite what they planned of their time here. What a very strange place to be this is…
Most of our deliveries came – mostly amazon, mostly non exciting stuff to be honest – Â sack of rice, two boxes of noddles, two sacks of flour, kilos and kilos of sugar, instant coffee, bulk orders of teabags, oatcakes and corncakes, tins of yeast, a sack of cat food, stock cubes, 5 litres of olive oil, 5 litres of washing up liquid, 48 rolls of loo roll. A sort of months worth of boring supermarket shopping really I suppose. Essential and rather life changing if it is not here but not worthy of excited unpacking. My jam jars came though which while also not exciting was pleasing! We loaded it all from the Jeep into the Rangerover and managed to drive all the way up the croft which was fab as it was a very full car loads worth.
An afternoon of jam making followed. About 80 jars worth if I recall correctly, having taken all of the previously picked stash from the freezer. Pizza for dinner.
Saturday morning I was working at post office and Ady at the hostel. I did my shift which mostly entailed chatting to Jed, walked around to meet Ady and picked some brambles along the way. Home for a late lunch and some more jam making for me in  the afternoon. It was community bring and share meal with a Mexican theme. Davies and Scarlett are at various stages of a cold and don’t like Mexican food anyway so we had already decided the day before they wouldn’t come down and I had made extra pizzas for them to reheat. Ady and I went down and it was a nice evening although we finished pretty early and were home by 11pm.
I think if we don’t have music at these events they always seem to fizzle out quite early.
Today – it’s been very showery with some really heavy rain at times. I did an hour or so bramble picking around the croft in the morning and later this afternoon Ady, Scarlett and I walked down to the village and picked some more. I made jam (another 30 jars) when we got home and Ady cooked a lovely roast dinner.