No ferry again today. It was pretty blowy first thing and we’ve had loads more hail, thunder and lightning all day but the wind calmed down by this afternoon sufficiently to release the wind turbine.
Post Office was semi-busy. Trudi, Steve, Bad Neil, Fliss, Norman, Derek and Vikki all came in – various stopping for cups of tea, Bad Neil stayed all morning and had four cups! Various topics of conversation at various points with various people as diverse as weather bombs, hail and ice, infrasound and whether there is a bigger reason for dogs going mental at thunder and lightning and where in the UK various people’s spiritual homes were rather than where they are actually from – Neil is clearly a Yorkshireman at heart, he was talking today about wanting to keep ferrets!
Ady came to meet me from work having chopped down a Christmas tree for Mel & Em so we walked along to the hostel to deliver that. Rum gossip in overdrive just now as Claire and Cosmic Mike have fallen out and Cosmic and Steve are swapping house so that Trudi & Steve can move in together. Steve is officially gay but Trudi keeps telling everyone they are a couple while Steve keeps telling everyone he has made it clear that he is not up for a relationship with her on account of being gay. Much speculation on just what the sleeping arrangements might be 🙂 Ah Rum gossip!
Back home for lunch, some festive cooking show (think it was Heston today, we’ve been watching River Cottage and various others, it’s not Christmas without them according to Ady) and then Ady did some fire maintenance while the kids and I had a big tidy up in the lounge. It probably looks no different to the casual observer but I know it is less cluttered! It may be a bit like when Joyce came to visit all those years ago and in preparation I went through my make up bag and threw out all the dried up mascaras! 😆
I finished my secret santa gift of a crocheted purse and sewed a button on, finished a scarf which has been on the needles for weeks and weeks and sorted wool for something else to be working on then put all the rest away under the sofa.
Tomorrow is putting in the apple trees day, hopefully some more house site digging and fingers crossed we have a rescheduled ferry too which might bring vegetables and other supplies.