Monday – I was Mrs Post Office in the morning, Ady and Dave were on Trailer Fixing duty so they dropped me off at work and then headed back to start on that. We got it from What-you-want-to-do-Dave and took it to Harris before the track was fixed and the axle broke on it. WYWDD brought up a new pair of wheel holder things but it’s been one of those jobs that never made it to the top of the priority list until now.
Post Office was good fun – loads of folk came in and I made tons of cups of tea and coffee. I finished up and walked up the hill to meet Ady and BD. Â They had made good progress with the trailer but it turned out the wheels no longer fitted so some modification was required. We called lunchtime and all came back up here for food, then we left Dave arranging to meet up later and Ady and I went down to the village to meet Sean the TV dude.
We walked up with him, telling the story of the arrival of the static then had a pleasant couple of hours with him chatting and drinking tea. He had given up caffeine for lent so was on the wanky hippy teas, fortunately we have a box labelled wanky hippy teas for just such eventualities. Â He was a nice guy and answered all of our questions and concerns about the documentary. Davies and Scarlett went ahead of us and Sean and Ady fed the animals while I knocked up a quick bread dough to take down with us and we all walked down to the shop. Sean stopped for a beer before needing to get along to Fliss’ where he was staying, for his dinner. We had another and then went along to the hostel as I had offered to cook. Venison spag bol followed by ginger and lime cheesecake which is BD’s favourite and we were celebrating his birthday a couple of days early. We had a nice evening, with Sean the Rat joining us impromptuly as he walked past as I was about to serve up and had not yet eaten. Not too late a night, and BD, Ady and I walked the wheels up to the cabin on the way home.
Tuesday – Ady and I went along to the cabin where BD was angle grinding the wheel inner to make them bigger to fit on the trailer. We walked then down and they were still fractionally too small so we walked them back up again and had breakfast and Popmaster in the cabin with BD before heading back to the croft to meet Sean the TV dude for some further chatting. Davies and Scarlett (who to be fair had had a run of very late nights) had gone back to sleep and were still in bed! So we roused them quickly and then had another couple of hours chatting to Sean. By the end of it we had set dates for them filming and finer details aside I think we’ll be doing the documentary. Quite exciting and means Ben Fogle will be staying here with us in the caravan!!
We walked down with Sean, met Big Dave and collected Gill and Graham from the hostel to take everyone along to the boat. There was quite a crowd of folk there either leaving or waving people off, so plenty of hugs all round for Gill, Mairi, Big Dave, TV Dude Sean etc. Finally they had all gone, Ady and I loaded the Rangerover up with a gas bottle and headed for home. We spent lots of time with Barbara Pig, got the gas bottle up, made bread, Â made cookies, chopped some wood and enjoyed just being the four of us again after all the busyness.
Wednesday – I’d been convinced we would wake to piglets but no, Barbara is very slow lumbering around the pig pen but still pregnant. Maybe tonight… she’s actually due on Friday. Ady had been up early to check, gone to the village to collect a few things and put a wash on. After Popmaster and much checking of Barbara Ady and I walked back to the village to collect something for dinner from the freezer and deliver some goose eggs to Mel & Em. Back home again  for lunch, followed by an afternoon of wood chopping for me and compost loo finalising for Ady. That is now all fully installed and operational and aside from the utter luxury of a flushing loo it also seems to be working really well and will save (Ady) hours every week in emptying loos. Hurrah!
I made a really lovely steak pie for dinner which had us all feeling really stuffed. It’s pouring with rain and blowing a hooley outside so I fully expect Barbara is giving birth as I plan to head off to bed.
Hoping lots of piglets ar doing well this morning. And very exciting news on the documentary!
Comment by mich — 27 March 2015 @ 8:18 am