Wednesday – We met the boat as we had fence posts arriving on it. We spotted one of the Rum pony mares in the castle field had had her foal (there are two in there, both due to deliver) – a little boy, very cute.
As we got back to the croft we met Mathieu the wussy wwoofer on his way back up. They had indeed decided to pack up and head away. We had a chat, a hug, they filled in the volunteers book and we waved them goodbye.
Thursday – Ady worked in the morning. It was Sheerwater day but it was intermittent rainshowers with a heavy side order of winds so we decided against it and Ady came home instead. I crocheted a scarf, rather ironically called ‘spring’ full of greens and yellows. Seems like we had a better spring than summer again so far this year. I had promised Scarlett that if we didn’t go on the Sheerwater I would walk down with her to see the foal so we did that late afternoon. We more or less dodged the showers and just got drizzled on instead.
Friday – In the morning Ady was on loo emptying duties while I spent some time sorting out the peas. The WWOOFers had done a great job of cutting down the grass and weeds inbetween the raised beds but in doing so had moved netting covering the beds. A combination of that, the wind and the turkey realising that peas are quite nice to eat meant the two beds of peas were getting a bit decimated. So I weeding between them, fixed the netting, found some more stakes to keep them all upright and re staked them all. I picked a few and planted out the two or three from the polytunnel that had germinated late. We had lunch and headed down to the ferry.
We had CoOp shopping and a couple of deliveries so collected that and then went round to Fliss’ to collect a couple of old sacks of tatties which were rotten and she had given to us for the pigs (actually they are not as rotten as we thought and instead we’re planning to plant them out and see if they sprout and grow) and some leftover dog food from Tinker for Bonnie. We collected the post and decided we probably wouldn’t bother going back down to the shop for a Friday night beer after all as there are not many people around.
Back at the croft we arrived at the bottom as Ali arrived at the top, walking round with a bloke who used to live here and his two kids, come to visit the baby birds. We chatted to them for a while before unloading the shopping. I made pizza dough and then did some ruthless culling of tomato plants in the polytunnel and weeded the salad beds – the pigs did well out of that exercise!
Saturday – the last Graham Norton before the summer break. I settled down with my crochet to listen but there had been no takers for the tour so Ady was home by 11am. It was very showery weather so we darted out a few times but mostly stayed indoors making the most of power from the wind turbine. We did a bit of working stuff out on the camp kitchen area, worked out where the materials were around the croft but did not attempt to start moving 9 foot long galvanised metal sheets around when it was so windy. We made popcorn and watched Suffragette which we had from Lovefilm. Really powerful film.
Ady and I went out to feed the animals and Mike & Deb appeared walking round the nature trail. They came in for a cup of tea and a bit of a moan. Curry for dinner.
Today – it was really rainy first thing so I stayed in bed reading my book. It decided to cheer up though so Ady and I finally got outside to look at the shelter. We have a shed which was originally built as a chicken house, then housed the feral cats, then became a tool shed and then we moved the compost loo up there as it is close to the bell tent. We wanted to create a camp kitchen / undercover shelter type area to sit, cook and eat in, maybe string up a washing line to dry wet clothes etc. It will be the space for WWOOFers to cook their meals and a nicer addition to the bell tent for campers. We messed about with it as we went and spent a lot of time gathering metal sheets from various places on the croft and walking them up the hill. Â It’s looking good – still needs some work, some gravel brought up to create a better floor and some shelves and benches for stuff but we’ll spend some time up there in the morning doing a bit more and then leave it for the first lot of volunteers.
Lovely roast dinner, couple of episodes of Lost. Tomorrow we have either 1 or 3, 4 or 6 WWOOFers arriving.
I don’t understand the Wikipedia outrage?
Comment by Michelle — 05 July 2016 @ 8:07 am
Oh yeah… so Nick Berry came on the radio singing Every Loser Wins and Ady and I played ‘how old is Nick Berry now?’ guessing. I went to wikipedia to check and it said ‘Nick Berry is best known for his role in Heartbeat…’ which I disagreed with totally. IMO he is best known for Every Loser Wins, then being Wicksy, then being in Heartbeat.
I took it to facebook to settle the argument and opinion was split…
Comment by Nic — 06 July 2016 @ 12:52 am