Friday – Don’t recall what we did in the morning. After lunch Ady and I went to the ferry to collect Big Dave and various stuff from the ferry. We dropped off some of the stuff we had collected for Jinty and then all came back to the croft. Dave came over tea and doughtnuts and then went to open up the cabin. We all went down for a beer at the shop and then came home for pizza.
Saturday – work for both Ady and I in the morning. A nice morning for me at Post Office – the usual sociable coffee shop type of arrangement 🙂 I walked along to Ady and we came home together. Big Dave came over for lunch too. Ady did some de-moulding of Scarlett’s bedroom while I made brownies and prepped the ingredients for curry that night for dinner. Ady got it ready and in the oven on a low heat and we all went down to the village. There was half a plan to celebrate Bad Neil’s birthday (Sunday) but he didn’t properly come out in the end. We all came home by 9pm and had lovely curry.
Sunday – Ady and I wandered over to Big Dave’s for cups of tea and chats and to check what he had gotten done in the cabin. We all walked down to see if we could do some maintenance on the Jeep but were foiled by not having the right bits. Ady and I came back to the caravan for a late lunch and then some general bimbling about on the croft. I met Dave and we went for a beer (or four!) while Ady got dinner on. Bad Neil came out and it was actually a lovely couple of hours sat in the late afternoon sunshine chatting with a few folk hanging out at the shop. Back home for a lovely dinner, brownies for pudding and lots of Davies’ very funny films.
Monday – work at the hostel for both Ady and I Â – my last ever shift in the hostel as it closes next Monday. We were done by midday and walked home. Dave came over for lunch and then we took him down to the ferry and waved him off, picking up the veg box on the way back home. I supervised the kids putting jacket potatoes in and Scarlett making bread dough. An evening back to just the four of us meant a dvd fest of two episodes of Doctor Who and a Modern Family marathon.
Today – I watched over Scarlett making leek and potato soup and we turned her bread dough from yesterday into bread rolls. Ady worked for a couple of hours in the hostel as Claire was due back to work  but didn’t come back to the island on the ferry yesterday. We had lunch and Tom appeared so he got on with some digging. I organised hotel rooms for Davies’ hospital appointment in a couple of weeks (we’ll be off Wednesday to Friday and will do one night in Inverness and one in Fort William – had hoped to see our friends in Glen Uig but they are away down south).
Ady and I strung up wire between posts in the fruit cage to train the various fruit bushes and did some work in the walled garden which was mostly talking and planning but meant we came up with a plan for netted frames for the raised beds to get working on.
Back at the house I supervised Davies making bread dough for bread and garlic bread, pasta bake (including making white sauce from scratch, cooking and chopping bacon, cooking a pan of pasta and constructing it all), roasting a bulb of garlic and then making garlic and herb paste to make a garlic bread. It’s all pretty basic cooking stuff but all from scratch and feels far more real than the baking we did when they were small.