Yesterday morning Scarlett and I made a 3d tiger puzzle that my Mum had given her and then it was ferry o’clock. Ady and I went down together and collected stuff – our Asda order came along with 10 cartons of milk we’d ordered through Jinty. We grabbed that and then Ady whizzed me along to meet Vikki and Jacqueline who is from Highlands and Islands Enterprise, a body which funds loads of things in the area including our Development Officer post. We had invited her over to talk to some of the directors of the trust about continued funding and how that might work best for us moving forward. We had the meeting at Ali’s so I walked up there with them where we were also joined by Fliss.
Gav came back on the ferry yesterday too for 10 days or so to try and do more house stuff. He looks a little less shell shocked by new parenthood but still rather in the wake of a big life change! Good to have him back if only briefly.
I left Alis and walked part way with Vikki and Jacqueline who was back to the mainland on the late boat and stopped at the hall to load the dishwasher from Sunday, tidy up a wee bit and put the milk, fruit and veg delivery into the fridge ready for the volunteers arriving on Saturday. On the way home I saw Ranger Mike, back from Berlin so stopped to chat for a good half an hour and catch up with him. As we chatted we were joined at various points by Rhys, Norman, Ali and Emily. I love the feeling of being part of the village at times like that when you just hang out and know everyone who happens past.
I got home starving so had some very late lunch. The rest of the afternoon and evening escapes me rather.
This morning I read almost the whole of Ratburger to the kids while they did drawing or just listened. We realised recently that from reading to them pretty much every day for their whole lives it has stopped of late and we all miss it so we’re starting again. I spent some time trying to sort my phone out as it has been playing up all week with some software update issues. I *think* I have it fixed now. I also emailed across my matrix scores for the applications for the bunkhouse project manager and replied to some other directorly emails.
After lunch I read some more and then Ady and I walked down to the village as I was off to Ladies Pamper Day – an afternoon and evening of drinking wine, chatting and having facials, makeovers, manicures and hair curling / straightening. Not totally my thing but Abby and Sylvia had put a lot of thought and effort into so I went along to be supportive. It was not very well attended with just 3 of us going along, so five of us there in total, although there are at least 3 women off island just now who would be definite attendees usually. It was fun and some good female bonding even if acrylic nails and drawn on eyebrows are not really my thing! I had a hand soak / massage and manicure although I insisted on just nail varnish rather than false nails – they would *not* be compatible with my lifestyle ;), had my make up done by Sylvia who is a trained make up artist but was a little heavy on the shading in my opinion and then Abby asked if she could curl my hair so she gave me lots of bouncy ringlets.
I came home slightly earlier than expected but precisely when I’d hoped as although I wanted to support the event I was aware of dinner with Ady and the kids and needing to go to work in the morning so was not keen to have a big late night. Davies and Scarlett were watching Despicable Me 2 and having their dinner when I arrived home so I cleaned my face off and had a shower just incase any of the stuff used might irritate my skin and then Ady and I had our dinner. We all snuggled up and watched one episode of Will & Grace and everyone has gradually gone off to bed which is where I am headed too.
Ooh and the Christmas jumpers came yesterday much to Scarlett and my excitement. We LOVE our matching fluffy reindeer jumpers and the boys jumpers look delightfully Christmassy too. Can’t wait to see them all unwrapped on Christmas morning 🙂