Today was a writing a job list and ticking it off as I went along type day. Davies and Scarlett are in a limbo of the excitement of the move wearing off and this now feeling like home and therefore requiring of stuff starting to feel ‘normal’ – whatever that is 😉 Scarlett has very much thrown herself into crofting and loves going down with Ady each morning to feed the animals, collect the eggs and splosh about in wellies. Davies is making his own strides out and spending time particularly with Mike the ranger and Steve who makes molds and casts models and creates games. He gets huge amounts from both of them and this allays my concerns about friends but I am also aware that he has always functioned best with a close relationship and plenty of time with me. 12 seems scarily old and I want to grasp at him a while longer and keep some of him still for me. We are all quite looking forward to the change of pace in the winter when we get to snuggle up, read, draw, craft and reconnect and gather ourselves ready for next season. We have another month or so of playing host yet with The Barts arriving next week, Lynda and Stuart at the end of the month followed by Julie & co for 3 weeks and my parents for a week in the middle of it, so the static is not quite all ours just yet.
Anyway, after a very minor wobble last night from Davies I promised him some of my day today so once I’d whizzed off a couple of pressing emails I sat and played a lego game with both the kids that Davies had designed and been trying to pin me down to play since Monday. It was actually a very enjoyable couple of hours and reminded me anew of how much I love spending time with my kids and where my priorities lie. 🙂 Far too easy to lose sight of the important things even when you think you have stripped everything down to literally nothing else.
We had lunch – pancakes made with duck eggs, Scarlett cleaned out The Humph and I did some more pressing online stuff. Our crowdfunding pitch is now live on the website but having realised you need to raise the whole sum or the pitch gets cancelled I realise I should have picked one method or another rather than starting to do it myself via paypal and the blog. I now can’t decide quite what to do as to start putting the link to crowdfunder in the same places I’ve been putting links to the blog, but I wonder if the crowdfunder site might look somehow more credible to people? Hmm, what to do…
The weather has been possibly our most testing yet today – really high gusts of wind. We took my big clock down from the wall as the walls were flexing a lot but other than that it has felt pretty safe and secure in here. We still have futher tethering and winter-readying work to do but this was a good test to give us confidence in what we’ve done so far. No Sheerwater today due to weather – there are only two more Thursday trips scheduled for this season anyway, fingers crossed we get to do one or both before that ends for this year.
We had enough of a break in the weather at 3pm ish to gather up various things and head down to Fliss & Sandy’s. Fliss had told us to use the house as much as we like for baths, Tv watching, charging stuff up etc. so we went down for Ady and I to have a bath, to do a quick inventory on our stuff in their freezer (we use space in it but I’d lost track of what was in there), the kids to watch TV and to give my laptop a charge up. The kids loved it and we left them there while Ady and I went to the RCA Meeting. The meeting was fine and fairly straightforward this month, which was just as well as I was taking minutes. My suggestion of introducing a feral cat population to control the rats bombed 😉
Back to collect the kids and then home for dinner. We had an illfated attempt at Lovefilm instant when all latops refused to play silverlight so maybe that was a silverlight issue rather than our laptops. We watched iplayer instead while we ate.
I was up far too late last night so need to be in bed before it gets too far into tomorrow 🙂