Saturday – Sandy rang us in the morning to apologise for the night before which we assumed meant all was well with them down there. He checked we were still up for going walking on Sunday too. However I met Fliss and Joss walking an hour later and she knew nothing about him ringing and all was not well after all 🙁 I’ve let her know we’re here for her as and when she needs us but we’ll keep a distance until we know what’s happening with them down there.
The kids made a card each for Frazer and Kat (still no name yet) and I wrote out a card then walked down to post them. Jinty was closed but I met Dave and Lynda outside the shop and a tourist who wanted to book into a camping cabin so had met Jinty and she’d said she’d be 10 minutes. Somehow I’d totally messed up the ferry time for the day and was convinced it was due in at 2pm so had been working to that when infact it was in at 1135am. Davey appeared with our jerry cans and said Jinty had collected our parcels. So I walked home quick (I had Bonnie with me) and collected Ady and the car and we got back there to gather parcels and post (dog food, flour, Scarlett’s 3ds which I have ordered in plenty of time to stash away for her birthday) and Lovefilm and we posted our cards too.
Back at home we had some lunch, I made some bread and some cheese straws and looked at the Hawkins catalogue with the kids that had arrived in the post. We had a really early dinner as I was going out and then I left the others watching Ghostbusters on lovefilm instant.
I was off to Jinty’s to watch How to make an American Quilt – an idea of Sylvia’s that the women (and men if they want to) should get together to weave all our individual stories of ourselves and how we came to be on Rum into a collaborative quilt to display in the hall – the story of the people on Rum. It’s such a gorgeous idea 🙂 Sylvia has got it from watching the film so got a copy and we all got together to watch that to get inspired before we start. Not everyone made it – Fliss had stuff happening at home, Ali didn’t come but apparently she rarely comes to anything anyway, Lynda was busy packing as she’s away for a month later this week, Rachel didn’t come due to still recovering from excesses the night before but there was me, Jinty, Sylvia, Abby, Lesley, Coryla, Vikki and Ross who lives with Jinty hung out with us and watched too. It was a really nice evening. I was home just before 12 so not too late either and the stars were amazing – I spent about 10 minutes stood on the sporran star gazing before I came in to go to bed.
Davies had waited awake for me, he always does 🙂
Today – Davies and Scarlett spent lots of time playing lego. Ady and I walked down to the village to collect some bits from the freezer. When we came back we walked some of the croft trying to work out the best route and material for a footpath from the static to the nature trail for the winter. Mike appeared while we were doing that so he came up for a cup of tea on the sporran. Ady got dinner on and the kids had some time playing outside and making films on the 3ds. I fed the animals – all the birds eat out of my hand including the ducks and geese which is really lovely – I so enjoy hanging out with the animals.
We had dinner and watched Hugo which had come from Lovefilm and was really good. Then we watched an Attenborough thing on iplayer. I rang my parents as they had made grumbly noises about lack of contact on Friday.