Sorry I’m late

A white tailed sea eagle ate my homework miss… so erm, my blogging is a bit behind.

I suspect catching up is beyond me. Maybe you can read about the last week on Babs’ blog (cough! 😉 )

Suffice to say we had a fab time with FabBabs & co. Fires were lit, port was drunk, walking was done, kids were rowdy, lots of feeding happened, we played Rachael Bingo (I’m hungry, bored, tired, HOUSE!), Ben was a tick magnet, the house felt way, way, way too small. Jinty’s fruit and veg order didn’t arrive so we had no ‘have an apple then’ apples to offer children, there was sunshine, rain, midges. Babs got to join me on Laydees Nite does Cocktails which included a 1am walk home from the village and a laying out on the pallets infront of the static looking up at the sky watching the Percy wotsits and was very magical.

Basically they joined us for a typical week on Rum.

The weekend has been quiet and recovering. I am properly Not Well with a cough which seems to have developed into some sort of nasty infection. I have an appointment with the doctor tomorrow as I don’t recall the last time I slept through the night without waking gasping for breath and coughing like mad. Obviously medicine is tricky to come by here – one of the things to stock up on when we hit the mainland next month I think. I have tried nasal breathing, honey and tea tree oil drinks, ginger, honey and lemon drinks, asthma inhalers and resorted to crying to myself in the middle of the night on more than one occassion 🙁 I am hoping tomorrow for hard drugs that kick in quick and remind me of who I am supposed to be rather than this quite pale imitation who has to sit down and recover after walking down to the washing line, collecting in dry laundry and walking back up the hill again.

Last night we went to a barbecue at Paul & Carole’s. We’d not realised in advance it was an exclusive event which I am always a bit uncomfortable with here. It is one thing to have a circle of closer friends but quite another to invite some people and not others… We stayed til just after 10pm but I was feeling very rubbish and started seeing bright halo lights around things which I’ve only experienced once or twice before but always makes me need to lie down in a dark room.

Today Ian came up to help Ady do some static levelling out – six weeks in and it has sunk in some places so needed a bit of making level again. We have got the boards to go around the base of the static to block it off, Sandy is giving us some insulation and we have the bolt down kit ordered and hopefully arriving this week so should be prepared for the autumn very soon with the static. I have some ideas about fund raising for the compost loo which I need to explore further and I still have lots of form filling out to get grants for polytunnel etc but we do have a job list by month for the rest of this year to work to so I am feeling that we are now on track to get stuff done without beating ourselves up.

I collected some blackberries but didn’t do very well so we dropped Ian back in the village and headed along the coast road to collect some more, getting six marg tubs full 🙂 Jam making tomorrow!

On the way back Fliss & Sandy invited us in for a cup of tea, Fliss had tried to contact me earlier to ask if we wanted to go to the beach with them today, which we would have done. We do get on really well with them, they are easy company :). We bumped into Vikki too on the way back so stopped for a brief chat with her before coming home to get dinner on. I had a play with the resin casting stuff I ordered for Midgefest but arrived late – my plan is to create some pendants, keyrings etc with Rum midges set in resin. It takes 24 hours to harden off but looks pretty cool so far, with a variety of different shaped moulds.

We had dinner and watched Outnumbered which had come in Lovefilm this month. I was not sure if D & S would get it or not but they thought it was hilarious and we watched 3 episodes before they went to bed.

I’ve baked a couple of loaves of bread and am looking forward to making jam tomorrow. We currently have nothing much planned for the coming week and the weather is supposed to be awful so we’re hoping for some indoor catching up with each other time.