Another beautiful winter day here on Rum. The light has been fantastic. I walked down to the village at 5pm to put our veg order in and it was stunning. The low sun shimmering on the river and the individual rays of the sun broken up over the ridge.
It’s been a mostly indoors day today. Ady made phone calls to order animal feed and meat for us from the local butcher. I put together most of the Rumble newsletter, just waiting for a couple of last minute items. We were planning on spending some time in the polytunnel but never quite got there.
I’m juggling finances rather more than I’d like to be – we have an overnight off to visit the dentist in two weeks time and I have still not booked the cob course which I’m twitchy about incase it gets fully booked. The winkle money which I had earmarked for that got used to sub the expenses from Eden which I am still waiting for half of and inevitably we overspent a little while off. On the plus side we simply can’t over spend like we used to and within a month we are back on track but there are lots of things I’d like to spend on just now – cob course, fruit trees…
In good news the editor of the Scottish Islands magazine has asked me to submit any other feature ideas for consideration for 2015 and the tenants paid the rent on time again.