Yesterday – I did some more midge making, finished off the yellow one, gathered some feathers and painted them and turned them into quills and put them in the shop. We finished the sink, getting the fence posts banged in and the cradle sited , the water connected and everything working.
Then we went down to the village to Claire’s opening of her Gypsy Waggon (spelling of wagon is Claire’s before anyone picks up on that and assumes it is me…) . There were a few folk there and we had a nice couple of hours in the sunshine drinking fizz and toasting the success of Claire’s venture before heading home. We collected the post from Saturday and Sunday’s boats on the way and came home to water the polytunnel. Ady did dinner, we had strawberries and cream and the midges sent me to bed early. It was so hot in our room and we had the curtains down to wash them so when I stirred around 430am and it was broad daylight streaming in I opened the window as it was stifling hot. Error! It was still crazy midgey outside and they all swarmed in.
Today – Priority jobs were rehanging the curtains and changing the duvet to the summer weight one and the bedding to cotton rather than brushed cotton. It’s certainly no less midgey tonight but I am hoping for a better nights sleep thanks to those measures at least.
A tiny bit of crochet midge making – wings for the midge Linda has asked for for her newborn nephew so I can at least get that sent in the post and concentrate on making ones for the shop. I’ve cleared all my emails, painted a couple more feathers but even better persusaded Scarlett that she should try doing it – not only is she better at it than me she can make some money and be creative.
Ady and I went down to the post office to post our votes and various other post and gather stuff from the freezer. We went down again later to the boat to send off petrol cans. We saw Ali and Fliss down there so had a quick catch up with both of them.
It’s been simply too hot to be outside most of today, I find this level of heat energy sapping, dehydrating and grumpy-making. I did whinge a bit on facebook but that made me even grumpier so I’ve moved away from that. Actually facebook generally is making me grumpy just now – rather too much ‘I am right and anyone who disagrees is an idiot or evil’ type posts. At least the third time in the last couple of years I have felt seriously out of step with lots and lots of my friends. Once it rains again I am sure I will feel far more appropriately at home on my remote island…
At 6pm when it was finally slightly cooler Ady and I walked the compost loo up the hill to the shed. More to do on that tomorrow and everything crossed for the forecast rain on Friday as the river is running dangerously low, the pressure is pretty much a trickle (showers are not fun!) and the prospect of carting water to drink and cook with up from the village is pretty unattractive. There are many things we did sign up for moving here, Heat and drought were not on the list!
Love you! Waggon is ok :-). Somehow seems more appropriate.
Seemingly not OK in American English though.
Comment by Michelle — 10 June 2016 @ 2:36 pm