Monday – We had arranged to go and see Steve & co so wandered down there after lunch. We had a coffee with them, were donated all their leftover food (mostly milk, cream and apples) and said our goodbyes, then walked back to put some of the stuff in the freezer. We had planned to call in for a cup of tea with Fliss but she was not home – realised afterwards she’d have been collecting Joss from school. So we walked round to the hall where Davies and Scarlett already were.
We had post in the car from Saturday evening, a big box of jam jars from Amazon and a few other bits. We did our hour of tai chi (which Ady insists on calling chai tea) and staff twirling – this week there were 8 of us. We stopped for a beer at the shop – Bad Neil’s brother John-Alex was over for stalking so chatted to him a bit before heading for home, animal feeding and dinner. We had the last 2 episodes of Eureka to watch.
Today – Ady and I planned to do try and fix the Jeep. We did some stuff to it but now need to fully ascertain whether it is the battery has had it, whether the car is doing something that is draining the battery or whether we need to do a better job on the battery terminals. We took off the second battery from the dead Pajero and got that on charge so will see how that fares tomorrow.
We came back up for lunch just as Davies and Scarlett were coming down to meet us with travel mugs of tea and coffee 🙂 We had lunch and then all walked down to the village to mess about on the beach for a couple of hours. We wanted a walk but the kids wanted to wear shoes not wellies so it was the best option for not going on one of the sodden pony tracks. Back home again for dinner and dvds.
I’ve spent ages today sorting out our car hire for Thursday / Friday as we’ve gone back to the local car club membership again suspecting we may have a few localish trips this coming year. Finally got it all organised so tomorrow will just be trying to sort the car out a bit more and then packing ready to head off on Thursday. Bonnie is coming with us on this trip due to lack of dog sitters on island and it just being a one night dash.