A way better day today 🙂
After a first night sleeping in the static everyone was feeling a lot better. To wake in our own home, sort out breakfast without the small talk with other residents and just start the day at our own pace was fab. Even if Davies ate his cereal dry off a dinner plate and Scarlett wanted milk on hers so ate from a saucepan as we’d not unpacked bowls yet!
Ady, Scarlett and Bonnie waited at the static for Dave who was coming to give a hand moving us further along the track. Davies and I walked down to the teashop for internet access and electricity. Davies sat with his DS and bought himself a new game online while I caught up on emails, blogs, picture uploading and various other online stuff. I made a couple of phonecalls (there is phone signal there too :)) and generally got stuff straight.
I chatted with Claire who runs the teashop, Steve who is the resident expert on all things eco and is the one who gave us the Earthship dvds and a couple of tourists, one girl who missed the ferry yesterday so is stuck here til tomorrow and another guy who wanted to come and shake my hand having heard about us and tell me he admired me and my family greatly and thought we had ‘great spirit’ :). Earlier we’d been chatting to a guy walking past the static who knew who we were and wanted to give us his address in Mallaig incase we wanted him to take delivery of anything on the mainland and stick it on the ferry for us. He does bird watching stuff over on Canna too and invited us along for free to any of his events.
Scarlett appeared a couple of times having walked down with Bonnie. She went off for a dog walk with Georgie and Tinker (Fliss’ dog who Georgie borrows to walk) and they had a great time. She then went along to Fliss’ craft shop where she was unpacking the un sold stuff from yesterdays craft fair and offered to help. She was there a while and came back with a bag of fudge she’d been given for helping and wanted to share with Davies. Davies and I had bought a couple of muffins (one each for the kids) which got me a free cup of tea and then later we were also given a toastie, another cup of tea and a hot chocolate with marshmallows and flake which Claire had made to take photos of and so donated to us 🙂 Scarlett got back in time to share the hot chocolate.
Davies wrote out some postcards to family and friends and we popped them in the postbox before walking back to the static. It’s moved about 50 foot today which doesn’t sound a lot but it has been round a very sharp bend and almost all by hand using a slow process with rollers and chocks and things. I felt a bit bad for leaving Ady and Dave to us but I was assured there was little I could have done to help anyway and it was good for Ady and Dave to bond.
We did a trip to the horsebox for various bits and pieces, including bowls! Then came back for dinner. We bought the genny along and spent some time hooked up and charging stuff up. Am very pleased with our set up, will be even more pleased once we have it all set up where it’ll be staying,
After dinner we went down to the shop, mostly to buy Dave a beer as we knew he’d be there. I chatted with Claire and Sylvia (Dave’s wife) and a good time was had by all. It’s late again and the most important thing we got from the horse box was my hot water bottle so I’m away to bed to make the most of the snuggliness
Hooray for good days xxx
Comment by helen (the boat one) — 28 April 2012 @ 9:18 am
Yay! A good tea shop is surely worth rubies!
Comment by Allie — 28 April 2012 @ 7:23 pm