Boring as it may be I am adamant I am fighting this cold off properly and not wearing myself out. Sleeping in a very cold, very damp room with no bath and other home comforts means a simple cold can turn into something more sinister here really easily.
So I’m heading to bed early every night, which means waking early every morning but I’ve been staying in bed and reading for an hour or so before getting up so still getting plenty of rest. Ady was off to meet Ross as he was going to Harris (other side of the island) to feed the SNH cattle and ponies today. They ended up gone for way longer than expected and didn’t get back til gone midday.
Meanwhile I got up, drank tea and answered loads of emails, read lots of online stuff and did some general volunteer organising writing when people are booked in on the calendar and creating different folders in my inbox to keep track of things. Then I went out to chop some firewood which was my fresh air and exercise for the day.
This afternoon has been showery and very cold so I didn’t venture out again but instead cut up three old pairs of jeans and crocheted a rug for the kitchen – Ady had taken up the the old coir mat from the kitchen to sweep underneath and give it a bit of a beat and clean as it was looking grubby but it disintegrated as he lifted it and the kitchen floor is really cold on bare feet if you are standing in there cooking so I decided to make a rug for it. 3 pairs of jeans doesn’t go very far…. need to find some more.
I made pizza dough and later pizzas for dinner but there is a Rum cheese crisis so they were not as cheesy as we usually have them. We started rewatching Friends and the kids spent ages looking at optical illusions on the internet thanks to the whole black and blue debate…