I feel like someone who is going out with the coolest of all the cool boys at school who is way out of my league. You know it can never last so instead of enjoying it you spend the whole time just fretting about how it will end instead.
70mph winds forecast for 3am, it’s been tipping down with rain since about five minutes before I walked down to the shop earlier – walking down was not too bad but walking back, up the hill, wind and rain in my face, carrying 8 cans of beer, 2 bottles of wine, 6 very large potatoes, 4 pints of milk, a pack of  butter, 2 packs of cheese, 2 packs of frozen chicken, all the post from the last boat which was the first we’d had in a week it somehow felt a bit worse…
Made the wine all the more deserved though 😉
Today was soup and bread making this morning, clearing the polytunnel site – cut most of the plastic off, had a major tidy up, covered the strawberries and lavender with some of the cut off plastic. Then in for lunch.
This afternoon was firewood – we did loads yesterday but it was too cold for digging and we had already cut down a branch last week before the chainsaw broke so we decided to very carefully cut up the branch and bring it up. I chopped and stacked it while Ady took some indoors. We fed the animals inbetween and then I made my walk to the shop jaunt. Up til that point I’d avoided getting wet all day.
We re-joined Lovefilm having asked for loads of dvd recommendations and started putting them in my amazon basket I realised this was probably a cheaper way and would result in less dvds kicking around the house too. So everyone has been adding things to the rental list in great excitement all day – it’s like free  movies! 🙂
This evening we watched My Family which arrived today, not sure if it will be a winner or not really. I suspect we will have too much else to choose from to give it a proper go. Never mind.
Everyone is really tired – I think the last week or so has taken it out of us all. Here’s hoping for a roof still in the morning!
I wouldn’t be able to carry all that lot in one go from the car into the house!
I wonder if challenging the kids to make a pulley system would be fun? or a zipline :-). Surely there must be a way of making some simple thing to help get heavy stuff up the hill?
Very much hope roof and all in place x
Comment by mich — 15 January 2015 @ 8:27 pm
bit like wot jmen24 says here: http://www.winnipesaukee.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-13918.html
Googled “hillside pulley carts” Bet kirsty would find better.
Comment by mich — 15 January 2015 @ 8:33 pm