Friday – erm…. nothing at all springs to mind. I know we had pizza, I know we watched Doctor Who. Oh, wait, yes, Fliss came up for lunch. I chopped wood in the morning and Ady did loo emptying, Fliss came up for lunch and chats about craft events.
Saturday – we went down to the boat as we had petrol coming off. It was a busy boat so we chatted to folk, our animal feed delivery came off and we also did our laundry. So we came back from the boat and transfered the animal feed into the Rangerover, then went back down to the village to collect seaweed while the washing dried. We got the car across the river with the animal feed and unloaded all that, then came in for lunch. After lunch it had rained a bit but we managed to get the car across then it died having got water in in it. We loaded the seaweed in but left it there rather than attempt another river crossing.
We’d had a really productive week so I declared it Prosecco Saturday and Ady drank a whole four pack of beers. We’re so rock n roll.
Sunday – the weather was horrid so I dossed in bed with a book having a lie in. Then Ady and I went down to the village to help with prep for Burns Night. Ady took on the icky task of cleaning out the hall kitchen fridge, while I helped peel and chop a load of potatoes, then diced up the tops (heart, lungs, liver) of a deer hind that had been boiled for a few hours. Really interesting the different textures between the different organs. I fried that off and then added it to stock and the haggis mix (oatmeal and spices) and then with Ady’s help stuffed the two massive casings. Doug, David and Lesley were there with us in the kitchen, Ali and Clare and Dan were in the hall laying out tables and clearing up. It was a nice few hours. Baby Dougal prevented Lesley from doing as much as she’d planned so I ended up whipping the cream and making the cranachan too while she supervised and cuddled Dougal. We came home for dinner which was a lovely roast chicken.
Monday – the weather was dire again, Ady and I walked down to collect the battery which had been on charge but several power cuts in the village meant it had gone off. I’d taken down some butchers string to tie off the haggis so did that and we collected the pole from Gav’s old bell tent which we have the canvas for and had thought the pole was forever lost when Neil and Lesley found it under their spare bed in the room Gav and Laura had used – yay! Â Reminded me of a very funny afternoon with Clara trying to work out how long or short to cut a huge bamboo pole as a replacement. We managed it and stuck it in a welly with a deodrant lid on top. Back at home for lunch and we watched some wildlife documentaries, I had a shower and wrote our poems and then we got ready to go down to the village.
A fabulous evening down there, lovely food, good poems, some singing and lots and lots and lots of drink. One good thing to come from having been a director is my friendship with Lesley, Ali and Fliss, the four of us are very close now and they all stood by me like sisters when we had our drama earlier this month. There is one particular photo of the four of us from the evening which just makes me smile every time I look at it. I have felt pretty lonely here on Rum at times for good friends but four years in I know that there is a real bond between us four. Â It was a very late night, I think Ady and I got home just before 2am.
Tuesday – which of course meant nothing much happened on Tuesday! 😉 Davies didn’t even get up until nearly 4pm. I didn’t get up til 11 although Ady had been up and getting on with things much earlier. I mostly drank tea, ate toast and chocolate, crocheted and watched wildlife programmes with Scarlett on iplayer. I was not remotely productive but had a happy glow of a lovely evening and the pleasure of looking through the photos, well over half of which were just unflattering ones of us all in various states of drunken rowdiness and hysterical laughter! I did ring my parents and manage to write a blog post but that was the sum total of my achievements for the day.
Today – much more productive. Ady dealt with loo emptying while I got the remaining six rounds of wood up the hill and chopped, split and stacked them all. It was glorious and sunny, I was actually in short sleeves for a while when I was axe swinging. The weather suddenly turned though and an hour later it was snowing! We had lunch and then I headed off to Crafternoon with Fliss and Ali. Chatter, tea, brownies, post mortem-ing Burns Night and a small amount of crafting. Back up the hill for a round of Blokus and then dinner.