Finger is my ring finger on my left hand I know why it hurts – it’s from whacking logs with the sledgehammer and axe to split them. Another couple of logs brought up the hill and chopped and split this morning though so hurty finger justified.
The hurty knee is of slightly more concern; my left knee, hurting on the inside. No obvious bruising, swelling or redness and I don’t recall injuring it nor can recall having done anything. I am worried it is arthritis. It is worse in the morning although it has been painful in bed at night too and I am concerned it is the cold and damp. Will see what happens with it…
In other news we watched an interesting but quite sad documentary about a woman studying giant otters who raised an orphaned otter. It left her and she was worried it had died but she never found it.
This afternoon was Crafternoon, so Ady and I walked down to the village, visited Clare and her new compost loo building down at the yurt, then Ady came home and I went to Fliss’. It was one of those afternoons when the conversation about parenting made me all bitchy so I came away feeling low level grr-y about it but otherwise nice to hang out with Lesley, Fliss, Ali and Debs. I got home without a torch 🙂
Scarlett was painting, Ady and Davies were watching a James Bond film. Davies had proclaimed it ‘a travesty that I am 15 and have never seen a James Bond film’ recently so Ady got 3 dvds in a box set for him to watch with him while I said I needed him to hear my monologue about sexism and how women are portrayed before he watched it. Not sure which one they were watching but Scarlett looked deeply unimpressed and Davies chose to turn it off so we could all play Blokus when I got home. This may well be for my benefit rather than a deliberate eschewing of all things 007 of course…
Spoke to the friends we are staying with for a few nights when we go off in a couple of weeks to finalise plans and realised the Screen Machine (mobile cinema lorry, very cool, like a micro machine!) is in Mallaig while we’re staying with them. Alison and her friend had already booked to see a film so I am joining them for that and then Ady and Leon are taking Davies, Scarlett and their two girls (these are the friends D&S met at Outward Bound) to see the new Star Wars. Alison had suggested we all go but I declined 😉 which is excellent as that was on the kids’ list of things they wanted to do while we were off and they get to see it with mates too :).
Dinner was pork mince bolognaise – it worked well for bolognaise but Davies didn’t like it for meatballs. Made me realise how very lean indeed our usual venison mince is though – this was our own pork mince but so much fat came from it.