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Mad busy Wednesday today.
This morning I got stuff ready to take down to Market day and labelled up the herbs I’d picked and dried through the week. I had a plan to sell them for £1 a pack which feels a little like daylight robbery really but I thought it would be worth a punt and if not I’d use them for the actual purpose I’d grown them which was cooking with ourselves. I had ten packs in all – mostly mint, some rosemary, tarragon, oregano, basil.
We loaded the car up and headed down to the craft shop to collect stuff then round to the hall where Ady dropped me, the kids and the stuff off so I could set up and he went to meet the boat. The good news was loads of stuff came for us, masses of Amazon subscribe and save food things, animal feed delivery and fence posts, co op food shop and the petrol we were not expecting until Friday (which is good, petrol runs both our genny so means we have power and also our strimmer which means various jobs we want to do this week will get done, weather permitting), the bad news was that diesel, which we were hoping would have been here last week was still not here. The car is on the red light so probably has just one trip to the pier left. Eek.
I was setting up the Market Day and chatting to a couple of foreign tourists who have been buying our eggs from the honesty table and were a little starstruck to actually chat to me in person and talk about our travels and our plans (we have a poster up giving a bit of info about us for tourists at the croft gate). They have been here three days and love it having only otherwise been to Eigg, Fort William and Chichester, Sussex in the UK. Quite odd that they’d been 20 miles from where we came from and to here but nowhere else. So they were really interested in talking about our time travelling in 2011 and how different the culture and local areas can be in different parts of the mainland UK.
I like talking to tourists 🙂 Particularly when they buy six loaves of my bread 🙂
Then it was all change as Ady came to take over the market stall and I went to join a board meeting. Gav had volunteered to help Ady and then Mark the Irish Ghillie who had arrived on the boat joined them as did Neil so the four of them sat there chatting to tourists and selling home baking and crocheted items 🙂 They did well, I eavesdropped a bit and they were excellent at welcomming people to Rum and telling them that the shortbread was ‘to die for’ 😆
Meanwhile the board meeting went ok – I had to do a couple of bits on my volunteer program vision and the most recent developments in Visitor management group meetings and I got vocal about road charges. It was generally a good meeting though. Midway Sarah interupted us to say that the scheduled TV filming for tomorrow which I’d agreed to was actually happening today if I could fit it in.
So once the board meeting was over I went outside into midgey hell and was interviewed for TV and radio about the castle and it’s future. That should be going out on radio tomorrow morning and TV tomorrow evening on Reporting Scotland. Midges aside it went fine.
I had a quick chat with Sarah (SNH boss) and then we packed up to go home. I’d done well at Market Day with £20 bread sales and all my herbs sold. More herbs need drying and packing ready for next week!
Back at home we unloaded all the shopping and put stuff away which took ages, the kids watched a DVD which had come in the post and I cooked dinner. I’m glad the TV stuff is already done, it means tomorrow actually looks almost quiet with just the Sheerwater and some crochet and chat on the schedule.