Its been showery today so we’ve been dodging the rain while trying to get stuff done. This morning we got nine tin sheets up to the static ready for the wood store before breaking for Popmaster. I made a picnic and then we walked down to the village to collect the car before the Shearwater.
Casey came along so I chatted to her lots on the boat. We saw nothing other than birds today, not even a sniff of a porpoise. Actually that’s not true. we saw seals off the coast of Rum. I am so glad that last year was so amazing for wildlife spotting. We’ll definitely do the Sheerwater every week again next year as its a tenner very well spent each week to have that two hours off, literal and spiritual perspective of moving away from Rum and coming back along with the very real possibility of seeing amazing cetaceans. But this has not been the year for it and I am glad we were so spoiled last year with minke whales and dolphin superpods.
Back at home we finished the wood store and changed our original plan to roof it. We need to bring some more pallets up and the rest of the wood we gathered yesterday but I split most of the bags of wood we already have here which has filled a pallet with about four layers of wood. My dream would be to have it filled for the winter – we’ll see.
Dinner was a joint effort of fish cakes. Scarlett has discovered the lure of a new console game and has been awol all day with her head over the tablet doing something while Davies for the first time learns of the frustration of competing with electronics for attention. He made a poster to advertise his birthday cake sharing to put down at the shop
I am feeling the effects of two days of lifting, shifting and hulking things about which is at once both pleasant and exhausting.