I wasn’t going to blog but I have snuck into the village hall to check online stuff and need to have a reason to stay in the hall because there is *the* most interesting meeting going on with a group of students who I thought were here to do earth worm stuff but it turns out to be far more of a social science field trip which is rather fascinating to be eavesdropping on.
Anyway. Today was an early start – we were down at the croft first thing to do pig stuff. We hooked up the electric fence and tested it. Some of the birds had escaped and Bonnie and Davies rounded them up, amazing to see our crazy puppy who a few weeks ago knew pretty much nothing but has an innate instinct to herd even though she doesn’t know why.
We also did some washing line maintenance, and a clean load is now swinging in the breeze.
That all done Ady and I walked back to the static and collected the landrover roof we’d been given to use for a pig house. It was heavy and we’d anticipated it being an all day job to move it to the croft but we managed to do it in 20 minutes.
Then back for lunch 🙂
After lunch we headed down to the castle grounds where a worm talk was happening. We have a visiting uni group headed up by Dr Kevin Butt (worm man extrodinaire!) who were putting on a talk about worms. It turns out the reason for their visit is not just about worms at all but some sort of issues finding out study, I realise it is not just me that finds the dynamics fascinating here :). The kids enjoyed the worm talk and we’re going to another one tomorrow evening.
We went for a cup of tea at Ali’s house along with Mike, Georgie and Izzy and then when the midges got too out of hand we headed back to the static. We were having a cup of tea when Kevin and Jackie (other uni bod) appeared so they came in for a chat and cup of tea too. They have asked us to talk to the students at some point and were really interested in our story. More to follow on them I suspect.
Battery is dying so I need to heading off – curses, my excuse to be here has gone!