Sunshine and showers here today. I put what may even be the penultimate lick of paint on the honesty larder (for this year, I may paint the sides come the spring) and darted in and out of the polytunnel whenever the heavens opened. I watered the lavender, strawberries and salad leaves in there and marvelled again at the Scout Path.
Davies and I had a long chat this morning (with occassional input from Ady and Scarlett) and he is very keen to have a visiting friends and relatives trip next year. I need to contact a few likely hosts and lift givers but reckon I may be able to coordinate him going off with one set of visitors, maybe being dropped off between a couple of friends and then brought back up with some more visitors again. He’d not want to be away for more than 10 days or so, so would only be a night or two with each potential host and he’s ever so small and not much trouble…. will see what I can sort out but if anyone was planning a visit here in the spring and might have car space for a passenger do speak up. Scarlett remains adamant she does not want to go anywhere or visit anyone but everyone can come and see her here!
Ady fixed some guttering and down pipe to the static as there is one particular corner which the rain pours off and then sits on the ground. The whole area around the static is sodden and didn’t really dry out even in the summer so we need to channel the water away from it somehow. Gutter and drain will help and Ady has been experimenting elsewhere on the croft with drainage ditches. It’s not really feasible to criss cross the whole 8 acres with ditches but we can certainly make some improvements. The kids went out with Bonnie enjoying the being outside-ness after a day cooped up yesterday.
We all met back for lunch and then Ady and I went off with the weeks laundry to start processing that. We timed it perfectly to collect our post which had arrived and put the veg order in which saved me needing to go back down to the village this evening. First load washed and in the drier, second load in the wash, third load ready to go. Tomorrow I’ll collect the dry stuff, dry the wet stuff and wash the dirty stuff. It should all be back up here tomorrow. One day a washing machine, an indoor loo and a bath…maybe next year?
Back at home Ady fed the animals and then we shut the door and settled in for the night. Will & Grace series 1 arrived in the post so we watched the first few episodes of that, which the kids thought was quite funny. I think it will grow on them as they get to know the characters. They particularly liked Karen and Jack and the fab piano theme tune was a winner.
This evening I have mostly been being silly on facebook, internet access being a far great luxury than a bath I guess.