Sunday – In the morning Ady did some scything, Â he is planning on getting back to an hour a day like he did last summer. Then he went to meet Big Dave as they were doing car maintenance stuff together. The Rangerover is now fine and running again 🙂 Yay, that will save us lots of time when we have big deliveries of stuff like animal feed, or in the case of this week camping beds, chairs, mini greenhouses and more.
I did some weeding of the herb spiral, which is now finished. Some of the slates I had put around the edge had grass totally grown over so I pulled that up and have placed it on top of some of the bare ground patches around the static, it might take. While I was doing that Neil, Lesley and Baby Dougal appeared so we looked at the peahens and then they came in for cups of tea, chats and to meet Kira cat. Ady and Dave came in while we were chatting and then headed across to the cabin where they were doing some painting. I walked down to the village with Neil & Lesley to check for post and then came back up to have some lunch before finishing the herb spiral.
I spent some time sitting out on the sporran in the sunshine with Kira trying to start getting her used to the outside and all the birds. That went fairly smoothly, I’m hoping to let her out from next week sometime and will carry on working towards that with small exposure steps.
Ady came back and we fed the animals, watered the polytunnel and then discovered that the broody chicken in the woodshed had hatched the first chick from the four eggs she was sitting on. The woodshed was a really bad place for her to go broody so we’d already decided to move her as soon as she hatched the chicks so we knocked up a small house with scrap wood, caught the hen and chick, gathered up the remaining eggs and put them all into the new house in the new pen. Not heard the chick at all today which does not bode well really but at least the hen has returned to the rest of the eggs.
We watched Doctor Who and had a delicious, if very late due to the chicken house making, dinner.
Today – This morning Trudi appeared with her volunteers to start digging out the old community polytunnel which is finally being relocated down to the village. Hurrah! Ady went off to help Dave with some ditch clearing, I walked down to the village to post the mis-ordered mini green house covers. An expensive mistake, that has cost me over a tenner 🙁 I got some milk and some bits from the freezer for dinner tonight and tomorrow and came back meeting Ady along the way. We had lunch and then Dave and Faye came over for a lift to the boat. We chatted to some tourists on the way down who were sitting outside the shed, another £30 taken in there today 🙂 Need to replenish stock of candles and bath fizzers.
We waved them off then collected the post from the car which included my repaired phone, hurrah and yipee! All fixed, now fitted with a new case I bought and all software upgraded too. So pleased to have it back 🙂 Ady and the kids went down to the hall as Rum Cinema was running the new Star Wars while I came home to set up my phone. They arrived back early due to technical issues – as in Trudi couldn’t get the film to project onto the big screen, so Ady and I fed the animals together, watered the polytunnel, decided on a location for the bell tent and marked it, brought in dry washing and hung out the load Ady had got washed while he was down in the village and then had a cider on the sporran before coming in to get dinner on.
Tomorrow is planned to be an entirely on the croft day – priorities this week are the fruit cage which needs the grass cutting inside and the net roof fixing back on, and getting the bell tent area set up. I know it’s only Tuesday tomorrow but this week will run away with us as we have various stuff happening at the end of the week, so it will be good to have a super productive day tomorrow.