Sunday – a well deserved day of rest, well as close to one as we get anyway 😉
Up late, animals fed and dealt with, eggs collected etc. The washing was piling up and in danger of starting to go moldy so Ady and I went down to the castle to get it washed. It was two loads, close to three but we hung the wet towels out on the line to air and dry and managed to it into two loads :). While it went round we delivered some eggs to Vikki (bartered for salad and fennel) and picked six punnets of blackberries. It was gorgeously sunny and aside from a brief chat with Norman and a wave at Rachel we saw no one. There is something quite lovely about the Sunday feeling on Rum when literally everything is closed and people are tucked away in their houses – like Sundays when you were a kid and shops were all closed and everything was a proper day off :).
Back to the croft to hang out washing, turn the brambles into jam (another flavour – blackberry and apple, we now have about 25 jars of jam which is close to a years supply 🙂 ) and generally potter about on the croft. I cooked dinner – toad in the hole with roasted vegetables. I went through the veg cupboard and cooked up more or less everything while the oven was on with the intention of turning all leftovers into soup for lunch tomorrow.
We had dinner and after a failed attempt to watch a streamed film on Lovefilm we watched River Cottage edible seashore dvd and enjoyed dinner folllowed by bramble crumble. After reminising about tinned cream (not evaporated or condensed) for ages I did a proper google and turned up the actual stuff – http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nestle-Carnation-Extra-Thick-Cream/dp/B0077PO4MG/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1347920782&sr=8-1-fkmr1 so we enjoyed a tin of that with it. I love our life, it’s like living as one of the Famous Five every single day. We even have a dog to be Timmy!!!!
Monday – I slept badly so had a lie in, as did the kids. Ady had gone to do some work for Sandy, which is now to be official as Fliss and Sandy have offered to pay him AND he gets some training from Sandy. This is Good News :). Meanwhile back at the croft the kids and I baked bread (two loaves) and rolls (for lunch), did all the washing up, I had a shower, the kids did some drawing, Davies decided to long to gift his old DS to Scarlett who had dropped hers in the river and it no longer works so she is thrilled. I made a couple of phone calls – both scary but with good outcomes and ticked more things off my joblist.
I walked down with Bonnie to collect Ady from Sandy’s and we went to the ferry, dropped Ranger Mike off on the way back as it was raining and then came home for lunch. Home made soup from leftover roasted veg whizzed up with some stock and home made bread rolls – delicious :). The sun came out so I collected the washing that was dry, Ady did some path making in the chicken area and the kids played outside with Bonnie and Davies’ new kite while I did some finishing up of a crochet scarf to sell in the Craft Shop.
We went to the shop to get some veg and had couple of drinks – there is a real Monday Club down there now and it’s a regular buying each other a drink venue for us and Fliss :). We caught up with various people and Norman offered to cook a curry for Ady and I. He’s been offering food for weeks – he’s a chef, so we took him up on it and popped in on our way home to collect it – a tray of rice, curry and dahl along with some poppdums. It was delicious, a real treat and our only taste of a takeaway living here on Rum!
Ady cooked for the kids and I rang Julie so have ticked almost everything off todays job list. I have more to do tomorrow but everyone else is out for the morning – Ady at Sandy’s and the kids at Ranger Mike’s so I have a few hours to get stuff done before walking down to the village to meet them all.
ahh, curry. I wish I liked curry. oh wait – I DO! It’s my FAVOURITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;P
Comment by Kirsty — 18 September 2012 @ 6:37 am
Dahl????? Be very afraid. I knew you’d cave in on the lentil front eventually 😉
Comment by Joyce — 18 September 2012 @ 7:09 am