My memory foam pillow gets rock hard in the cold so during the winter I have to bring it into the lounge and stick it near the log burner before bed. I’d not started doing it yet this season and the last couple of mornings I’ve woken with a stiff neck / upper back. I have it warming up now so hopefully that will be the end of that but I’ve been super cautious about pulling it today so refused to do any real lifting or heavy stuff.
Post Office shift this morning – a few visitors – Ali, Bad Neil, Ross and Fliss. We’re quiet at the moment with a lot of folk off island. Jinty was back today though so I finished off PO and left her to it restocking and putting away deliveries. Ady came along to collect me and we swapped cars (and all the stuff) and drove across the river to the croft. Animal feed had come along with a Book People order (some birthday, some Christmas), Superdrug, Toolstation, new wellies for me and a trampoline we’d bought for £15 off a family nearby moving away and getting rid of stuff. Didn’t know them but my friend Alison put us in touch and despite being logistically tricky to organise it got here 🙂 Yay.
We came up for lunch and Junior Bake off, putting away laundry and then Ady and I went back down to the village to collect more laundry, something from the freezer for dinner tomorrow, the veg which arrived this morning on the boat and today’s post (Lovefilm, randomly one book from the Book People order sent separately, Scarlett’s NatGeo mag, a couple of torches) while Davies and Scarlett looked for a missing turkey. It is the hen who was broody twice this summer and who suddenly started losing feathers this week – we assume it’s just moult which is late in the season but normal but will leave her vulnerable to the cold. Ady had penned her the other night to ensure she was in a crate with lots of bedding and food but let her out the next day when she seemed otherwise full of energy and a bit pissed off with being contained but she went missing yesterday. She is either tucked up somewhere or dead but unless she comes for feeding she won’t last. They didn’t find her and I spent another half an hour looking too and failed. Will look some more tomorrow.
Ady put animal feed away and brought in some wood and swept the chimney while I read some of Scarlett’s magazine to her – protecting that back remember! Dinner was a joint affair – Jinty had some pork chops and a whole chicken which were out of date so gave them to us – Ady roasted the chicken for the kids and cooked rice for him and Davies while I made stir fry with the pork for Ady and me with noodles for Scarlett and I – so no two dinners the same!