AKA jump, jump, jump, it’s my birthday tomorrow 🙂
Ady is feeling better today, still rather weak and was not up to eating much until dinner time but is definitely on the up – hurrah!
We walked down to the village this morning, to collect some bits from post office and see if Jinty was open tomorrow evening – she was not but when she realised it’s my birthday said she would open specially. So now I feel special (in a good way ;)) and Ady has put an email round saying she will be open and to come down and have a birthday beer with me, Hopefully a few folk do. We also grabbed some venison steaks for dinner tomorrow and then brought the Jeep back up ready to take Big Dave along to the boat later.
We had lunch and had a second failed attempt to watch the last Miranda.
Big Dave came over for a cup of tea and to deliver a bottle of birthday fizz for me – I barely have room in the wardrobe and fizz is almost not feeling special! 😯
We went down to the boat, calling in on Vikki’s on the way to drop off cabin keys (Big Dave) and collect jam jars (me), then to the pier where we had several bags of rubbish for the skip between us. It was a quiet boat with just the supply teacher coming off and Big Dave getting on.  We dropped the car in the village having collected pig feed from the Bunkhouse which had a group of folk staying for Hogmanay who created plenty of food waste and then walked home. Ady was struggling with the bags of pig feed  – I had the box of jam jars – so we took the Rangerover across the river and I took it back while he staggered on up the hill. I got in some wood and started dinner, Ady emptied toilets and fed the pigs. I re-boiled the marmalade and thought it had set but it appears still not to have done. I also made some orange curd which was also resistant to setting, a delicious steak pie for dinner, a loaf of bread and some rolls, potatoes for dinner.
We watched Hoodwinked with dinner, great film which we’ve not seen in a while but we are all missing a series to be working our way through.
And now I am going to hit publish because I want to get this in before midnight and head off to bed.