Oops, fallen off again!

A later night than planned getting home last night meant I ate dinner, watched The Apprentice, listened to Popmaster and went to bed rather than doing any online stuff.

School was the usual three hours of finding things to do, ever conscious that as soon as I leave I will recall all sorts of things I should have made use of this time to do but failing anyway.

Ady collected me as the Wednesday boat is 1135 so by the time he had collected stuff from it for us it was midday anyway so he came and had a coffee and we left together at 1230. Home for lunch, unpacking and putting away the shopping – we’ve just discovered that Asda direct delivers here so have done a couple of Asda orders including George clothes – the kids now have jeans, t shirts, socks etc again and having managed to break the underwires in two bras in the space of a week I now have new bras too. Hurrah for Asda, I can feel okay about still patronising supermarkets when it is this infrequent!

I then went back to the village to put a wash on and catch up with a couple of people, back home to hang it up and then trimmed some grass with scissors around the base of the willow hedge I planted. It’s doing really well and I’m proud of it but I made the error of not mulching around the base and the grass has grown really high. I now either have to accept long grass at the bottom or regularly trimming it. I did about a quarter before the hilarity of cutting grass with kitchen scissors in an 8 acre field stopped me. Still not sure what I’ll do but wondered about putting a line of stones along the base to suppress the grass….

Scarlett and I let the goslings out for the first time. They are big and almost feathered rather than fluff now and stick together so we thought they’d be safe from the hoodies and keeping them in is not what we want to do long term. We let the big geese in and they herded them out. They seem to be keeping them in line with slightly bullying techniques but the goslings also seem to want to hang around with them so we’ll just keep an eye on things. We put them away again at feeding time and will let them out again today to roam. The turkeys are also growing quick so we’ve increased their enclosure to give them more space while still keeping them under a mesh roof as I’m not confident they are big enough to see off hoodies just yet. Mrs Broody Duck is still sitting on her 7 eggs – I think they are due to hatch next week, fingers crossed the drake has done his job and they are fertile although I think she would have given up if she didn’t feel / hear / somehow know in that way that birds do that they were viable, fertile eggs. The chickens always kicked out any non developing eggs, even ones that were fertile but not doing things properly inside.

I did a bit more moving stuff abut and sowing in the polytunnel, giving some of the spent crops and pinched out tomatoe leaves to the piglets who were very grateful.

Meanwhile Davies and Scarlett were watching Trapdoor that had arrived on dvd and making plasticine models to create an animation with. There is a film making day course happening on Eigg next month which I have hopefully signed Davies and I up to.

I made some labels for my midge resin stuff and then took it all down and put it in the craft shop, had a quick cup of tea with Fliss and Sandy and then Fliss and I went round to the hall for a directors meeting. It was slightly fraught as Ali spewed out a load of stuff which took me rather by surprise and I have had another conversation with her this morning at the school which has left me feeling much the same. Still processing all of that so won’t blog it just yet but it’s all rather scarily reminsent of the Jenny saga of many years ago. Argh!

Rachel who is leaving next week was there and pretty drunk and emotional so we stayed for another couple of drinks which meant I was later home than planned, which is where this post started…