Saturday – Scarletty and I went to work. The shop was a shambles after a bit of a session the night before, it was the contractors last night so they had been partying with various people. Scarlett set to the floor with the mop, I washed up all the cups and cleared the kitchen, taped up the big bag of museli which had been dropped and split and Mel (first customer of the day) helped sweep up broken glass and other recycling. Bad Neil who was one of the partiers came in and looked so forlorn and hung over that I made him two cups of tea and then the contractors appeared and were contrite too so I made them cups of tea and sold them lots of chocolate to raise their blood sugar levels and gave them lectures about conducting themselves 🙂 It was lots of fun and all very sociable. And Scarlett made a fortune in clearing up dropped cash from the floor! 😉
Various other folk came into the shop for purchasing and socialising – I do enjoy my Saturday mornings :). We popped to the freezer for some bacon and then walked home. Ady and Davies had spent the morning working through a choose your own adventure book and Davies had created a very elaborate and lovely map. I keep thinking I am picking proper printed things up and then realising it is something Davies has drawn.
We had lunch and then it was just windy and rainy all afternoon to the point that we had to tether the wind turbine. I got dinner sorted (Chris French’s roasted root and rice gratin which may have originated with Delia but will always be Galoka’s to me :)) and some rhubarb, ginger and apple crumble which was very delicious. Vikki came up at 6ish and we had a lovely evening with her catching up on everyone’s news.
Today I enjoyed my Sunday lie in with a cup of tea and an hour (or maybe two) in bed with a book. Ady and I walked down to the village to put stuff in and take things out of the freezer. We took Bonnie and did a circular walk of the north trail. I tend to use the bottom path pretty much always as I love the river so much that I would always rather walk alongside it but the top trail is lovely too for the view of the cuilins and the sea and the bay. I am also secretly a bit nervous of the Rum ponies who are sometimes in the bottom field you walk through on the trail so never take that route on my own. With the exception of waving to Mr Rhys we saw no one.
We got back home and had just started to make lunch when Scarlett spotted Mike and Deb walking along the bottom path toward the croft so we had a manic five minute tidy up shoving everything in bedrooms while they climbed the Croft hill before welcoming them in. They had come to say they were worried about our vehicle situation and wanted to a) offer us use of their van here on Rum to move stuff around the village. It won’t get past the fork of the track towards the croft but that is barely half a mile from the croft whereas the pier is 2 miles from here so would save a massive amount of trailing to and fro with the wagon or carrying by hand. They also have a car on the mainland in Mallaig which they wanted to offer us use of. It’s too late for tomorrow as we have a car booked for that trip but we’amare going to start the engine and take the handbrake off for them on it (they tend to seize with the salty sea air if left for any length of time in Mallaig) and can use it in the future if we need to – maybe for our cob course trip. Also they have contacts on the mainland who may be able to help us source a new car. Yay. Love them 🙂
They left and we finally had lunch by which time it was nearly 3pm. Ady went to finish off the turkey that had been hanging ready to take off tomorrow while I decided it was too late in the day to start ditching so knitted instead! The kids and I listened to music while doing various things and then Ady cooked dinner. We watched several Will & Grace episodes including a filmed live one which has the cast corpsing several times which was very funny. I got facebook messsages offering me a regular slot in a crowd funded magazine (no payment but free subscription and more coverage of me which is always good).
Tomorrow is Mainland Land for the dentist so will be no onlineliness. See you Tuesday!
Have you thought of an electric golf buggy and trailer? I’d have assumed with all those Scottish golf courses there would be some second hand bargains to be had. Hope all goes well at the dentist xx
Comment by Beryl — 24 February 2014 @ 10:17 am
I reckon getting a packhorse 🙂
Comment by Mich — 24 February 2014 @ 12:23 pm