We all slept in a bit this morning – 8am for Ady, 9am for me, 11am for Scarlett and midday for Davies when I woke him up.
We listened to Popmaster and debated tasks for the week and the day ahead. We had planned to do stuff in the fruit cage and walled garden but today was Midge Hell with no wind and no sun so we decided working close to the ground close to the trees would be foolish. Instead we took the car battery and some stuff to be frozen down to the workshop to put the battery on charge / food in the freezer. Back to the croft via Dave’s cabin as the door had blown open on the porch. When we got there we realised the door had actually blown off so we rehung it before coming home.
There was enough of a breeze to sit out for fifteen minutes and chat before lunch about whether we were glad to be home or missing the mainland. We decided we were glad to be home and made some plans for winter prepping to help preserve that feeling.
Then in for lunch. Scarlett was already up, we woke Davies and ate some of our mainland food. We watched Horrible Histories and then the kids headed down to the village for a walk. I made some comfrey tea and Ady did some scything. It seemed a little less midgey so I decided to bite the bullet and do some seed sowing in the polytunnel. All in containers for now and just starting off seeds to transplant anyway. I managed 10 different seed trays with assistance from midges and chickens, got it all watered and then had to give up as it was too midgey.
By then Davies and Scarlett were back so Scarlett and I did some egg collecting, moved the fake eggs (which encourage the birds to lay in certain places, they like to lay their eggs in with other eggs) around to different places, picked some wild flowers from the croft to bring into the caravan and gathered a bagful of assorted feathers as Scarlett and I have a plan to do something crafty with the various bird feathers to sell having seen various cool feather things at the show including painted feathers and feather brooches and hat pins. We also harvested some more strawberries.
I decreed it too midgey to go back out so made some cookies and got dinner sorted. Ady did a bit of strimming around the wind turbine where there are too many cables for scything and fed the animals.
Tiredness has caught up with me now. Off to bed.