Saturday morning was me off to work at being Mrs Post. A very quiet shift – just Abby, Coryla and Jinty came along. Oh and Manager Mike who bought me some apples. I wasn’t quite sure either but apples are always welcome (when given nicely, not chucked at me, obviously). After 12 I went to view what Claire was selling off as it was the last day of teashop for the year and she was clearing out the freezer and cupboards. I bought 20 chicken breasts, 2kg of bacon, a kilo of mince, a block of pate, a load of frozen ham, a block of cooking chocolate, a large tub of firecracker sauce and 1kg of cherries from her. She gave us two trays of Cadburys flakes, a large tub of margarine, a jar of marmite, various herbal teas. The whole lot came to £50 which was a stonking bargain and has filled up our freezer nicely 🙂
I came home for lunch and only Ady was here as the kids’ friend Catriona (pronouced Catrina? I’ve never known the like!) had arrived on the early boat so they were off playing with her. The kids appeared shortly after me hungry and a bit soggy so we put all their coats to dry infront of the fire, fed them and they played indoors for a while before heading back out to play when the rain stopped. We arranged to meet them at the shop at 5pm. I put a first layer of green paint on the freezer which is to be the honesty produce cupboard and then we walked down to the village.
We ended up staying at the shop later than we planned celebrating the end of the season with Claire who fed Davies and Scarlett leftover ice cream so they were only too happy to stay down there too. A very late night home with dinner at Goddard o’clock!
Sunday – the kids were off playing with C for the whole day again. I did a second coat of green and then Ady and I walked down to the village to put a wash on and go to the Community Teashop. Emily was doing it this time and had a veggie options castle caff theme with some excellent activities on each table to do like ‘draw your ideal house on Rum’ and ‘tell us your best wildlife joke’. There was quite a few people out and the activities got passed around the tables. It was good fun 🙂
We walked down to Norman’s as we’d been invited for dinner and wanted to check what time we were expected, swapped over laundry and headed back to the croft. We fed animals, I did some more painting and then we went down to collect the kids, swap over laundry into the drier and go to Normans. We had a lovely roast dinner and watched some Attenborough on his HD tv which was a real treat for the kids and left there around 9pm, collecting the washed and dried laundry on the way.
Monday – the kids were off to meet C again for the last few hours before they left today – back to school for her tomorrow. She adores Rum and is a perfect fit with Davies and Scarlett, they have loved having her here for 48 hours. Hopefully she’ll be back again soon.
I did some lettering on the honesty cupbpard and then Ady and I went over to visit Gav and Laura and admire their cabin. They only have two weeks before they are off to have their baby and won’t be back til next year. We’ll miss them 🙁
We went down to the boat to wave off Catriona and I called in to the office to print some bits off for a meeting tomorrow. Then home for some more painting before I went to the shop to put the veg order in and have a beer with Casey. I got home dry which seems amazing given the amount of rain falling now. Ady cooked a lovely dinner and I’m planning an earlier night tonight as I have a full week of meetings and general grown up thinking ahead.