Another manic Monday Rum style!
We went to the castle this morning to spend a last few hours with Lynda and Stuart. The kids, Bonnie and I walked to the ferry while they went in the car with Ady. We got a proper look at the waiting room at the pier which had interpretation boards put up while we were away and we’d only gotten a quick look at on Friday. They are fab – one about the wildlife, one about the history, one about the people and one listing various people’s favourite places on the island. The people board features a very special picture 🙂
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We waved them off and from the same ferry welcommed Chris, Julie, Maise, Jack, Lorna and crazy Mabel. Julie and I walked ahead, Chris and Ady followed in the car and the kids wanderered along somewhere behind. We got the code for the keysafe and helped unload everything into their cabin before Ady and I went off to do our butchery training.
There were 8 of us on the course ; me and Ady, Neil, Claire, Ranger Mike, Ross and the two ghillies; Mark and Doug. The butcher, Barry is a jolly sort of butcher bloke although rather sexist and racist which slightly put my back up a few times but I kept a lid on it as armed with a very sharp knife is not the time to lose tempers with people 😆 We skinned the two deer and cut the necks and front legs off them then learnt some cuts and all had a go at various things. Next we cut off the hind legs and the tenderloin fillets.
We’re there all day tomorrow finishing the cutting up, learning some processing (sausages and burgers etc.) and packaging, marketing and what equipment we’ll be needing. It was really good to be learning something we are so interested in that will also make us money :).
we finished later than we’d expected at 6pm by which time all four of the kids had been in and had a quick look at the deer. We went back to the caravan and Ady went in to see Julie & Chris while I got distracted by seeing the finished B&B room at Fliss and Sandy’s and Sandy put a (much needed) cup of tea into my hand while Fliss dragged out a box of outgrown clothes for Scarlett to rummage in – we now have a better stash of clothes for her again although Sorcha and Nell are far more girly and fashion conscious so lots of it was not to Scarlett’s taste.
We called in to the shop to collect fruit and veg and tally up egg sales for September – aside from the ones we sold privately and bartered (at least a tenners worth) we have sold £40 worth of eggs 🙂 Starting small but making progress all the time :).
Home for dinner, Davies and I watched Dr Who and we all watched Dragons Den which the kids had not seen before. And now, despite best intentions it is tomorrow o’clock already! Bed!