No phone, no pool, no pets

Well actually no petrol, no post, no gas because none of them came on the ferry today.

This morning Davies and I looked at uploading and ordering Christmas cards of his latest design to sell and worked out what he would price them at and how many he should buy. He has £60 from his postcard sales to invest but there is a balance between tying up all his funds in stock that has a limited sales period and being stuck with it til next year or making a quick killing and doubling his money. Welcome to the marketplace! 🙂

I cleared out my clothes from the wardrobe and stashed all my summer tops away, put all the dry winter tops into bags and back in the wardrobe and all the wet and musty tops out on the washing line to air / rinse. On the same basis we went through the dirty washing basket and Ady hand washed all the underwear, socks and anything actually stained (that will be all Tarly’s t shirts then!) and I just hung out all the jeans, jumpers and things which more need freshening than actual washing. The castle washing machine doesn’t do a great deal in the way of proper cleaning anyway and at £2.50 per load it is costing us a fortune and is currently a real faff to get in to as Billy and his workers have it closed off lots of the time.

After lunch Ady and I went to meet the boat but nothing we were expecting came, we did take an empty gas bottle down though, gathered some more logs, put our veg order in and collected some bits from the freezer for dinner so it wasn’t a wasted outing. Back home we had a cup of tea and then Ady went to strim some long grass and rushes to make bedding for the pigs while I chopped up 5 sacks of logs and burned all the cardboard from yesterdays deliveries.

It snowed on the actual croft tonight for the first time since we moved here, we’ve known snow on the higher peaks but never actually seen it settle on our croftland. It followed that with some serious hail so it is properly white out there now, looking very pretty under the big moon with ghostly ducks and geese wandering about around the static too.

I don’t really want to leave the cosy logburner but the sleeping bags have been keeping us nice and snug at night so seem to be working way better than the duvet.