I’ve been fiddling with a website for croft3.co.uk which I bought a while ago but had not decided what I wanted to use it for until now. After thinking about stuff for the isleofrum.com website we decided to do some camping here on the croft this summer as there is just such a huge demand for places to stay with the castle hostel closing. We have a tent and Fliss and Sandy have a tipi, we may think about a wee cabin (ie shed!) and possibly buy another tent or two aswell and do a pre errected tent deal up here. We’ll need to sort the compost loo and provide drinking water in jerry cans but people can go to the village for showers. We have sufficient cookers and crockery /cutlery to cater for that and people can either bring their own bedding / sleeping bags or rent them from us at a price to cover wear and tear and laundering. I also want to sell more produce this summer even if it’s just jam, eggs, bread and cakes regardless of whether we grow anything extra so that will go on the ior website too.
Yesterday I made soup for lunch and then did some stuff online in the morning. We had is lunch and Ady went down to the village to see Norman who had said he wanted to propose something to Ady. It turned out to be a day or twos work clearing rubbish and general tat from Norman’s garden as he is about to start renting out rooms as B&B so needs to tidy the place up a bit. In exchange he has offered us his car which is currently non running but only needs a new battery and a tyre change. We’re hoping Paul can fix the tyre and we’ll get a new battery for about £50. It’s a four door, larger than the Pajero with decent 4wd so will be perfect for us here and the Pajero can go into semi retirement and stay this side of the river on the croft. Seems like a good deal to us 🙂
I took Bonnie out for some lead exercise and then Ady came home. Most of my day got eaten with online stuff which is always frustrating when it is not actually completing anything but lots of faffing and fiddling. Never mind.
After dinner I started reading My Side of the Mountain which Scarlett got for her birthday from Julie. I’m pretty sure either Jan or Michelle recommended it to us ages ago as a book we’d like and I looked for it but didn’t find it. Sure enough it is exactly the sort of book we love so I ended up reading for nearly an hour with everyone begging for one more chapter!
Today Ady and I met the boat which brought Playmobile for Scarlett who had spent the last of her Christmas money on various bits which all came today. I called in to the school to fill in my forms which hopefully means that will all get sorted and I can start the job soon. Karl from Eigg came off the boat and is staying with Fliss and Sandy and keen to help us with house stuff. We put a load of washing on and transfered it to the drier so will need to collect that tomorrow, I’ll be glad when it’s line drying time again and we only need to hang around for the washing machine cycle before bringing it home. A quick stop off in the village and then home for lunch.
Just as we finished eating Sandy, Karl and Joss arrived so they came in for a cup of tea. I was making bagels and needed to whizz away to meet up with Ali to talk about websites so I left them all to it. They looked at the house site and went away to do more measuring, planning and plotting – we’re going down to talk more tomorrow morning.
Ali and I looked through the website, changed what we could and made a list of changes to pass on to the admin / design guy. It will look good and fresh for the new year once it’s all done :). I called in to the shop for a beer and stayed about an hour chatting to various people before heading home to do dinner. We watched the latest Africa and I’ve done more website fiddling.
Love My Side of the Mountain – read it when I was young and bought it for Jess a year or so ago, she loved it too.
Comment by RP — 18 January 2013 @ 10:43 pm