Post office this morning, it was lightly raining as I walked down, pissing down when I walked back. Hmm, coats a necessity again I think.
I had a good morning although no actual post office due to the lack of screen / post office counter working. I had various customers in for chats and then the TV & Radio folk arrived. They filmed a bit, recorded a bit and then had a technical breakdown so had to dash back to the boat to collect more kit, arranging to see me again later at the ferry.
Home, having gotten very soggy indeed, for lunch. We sent some emails trying to unravel a wind turbine conundrum we are having with the new kit we have on long term loan from Peter Who Wants to Save Rum and then went down to the boat, dropping off two hams in the freezer on the way. We were at the boat to send off a jerry can of diesel to be refilled, but chatted some more to the TV & radio folk before heading back to the croft to felt the shed.
It looks good – all done now other than the hasp on the door, but the one that came with it was rubbish, really little and flimsy, so we have ordered a decent one, along with a padlock (not for security, but so we can choose when the weather is unsuitable for having it open and lock it accordingly. Have also ordered a drop latch as I am concerned the birds will hang out in there given half a chance and some cabin hooks to secure the doors open if we decide we do want to do that. Options good to have I think. Really pleased to have got the felt on given the rain this evening. The shed is now watertight, tomorrow we’ll strap over the roof and do some more securing to the window to make it windproof (or at least attempt to). Then it is sorting out the interior to turn it from a shed into a shop, looking forward to that bit.
Internet died last night while I was in the middle of this… erm trying to regain my thread. That might have been about it for yesterday actually.
Today, Ady and I put the straps on over the shed roof and he did some stuff to the windows to make them less rattly. Scarlett and I got all the jam from the static and horsebox and did a big stock take of all the flavours (10 different ones this year!), then packed then all but except for two of each which are in the fridge, labelled the boxes and stashed them in the shed. Then lunch and downloaded Apprentice to watch 🙂 Love it.
After lunch I headed off for some bramble picking – I got 2kg which added to the kg from yesterday / Sunday meant another 21 jars of jam made this evening. We’re up to 126 now, still on track for our 200 if I can keep up.  Ady and the kids made up their bikes which had arrived and then rode down to the village to test them out. They are delighted with them and actually they look really good. I am almost envious of them. I met them all coming down and we stopped at the shop to get a few bits and have a chat with the various folk there, along with waiting hoping the rain would pass over. It didn’t so we braved it and walked home.
Back home Ady got dinner sorted, I turned all the brambles into jam and then rang my parents.