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Thursday – morning Ady and I walked down to the village to get some money out of the post office (which is just Jinty’s shop open at a different time!). We were just about back in time for Popmaster and then away again to meet the boat. We were hoping for dog food, flour and our new powerpack – the dog food and flour came :). Sandy had rung me earlier to ask if we could pick up their stuff too as they were expecting various things but Fliss was at work and Joss is a handful to take to the pier. They did indeed have loads arrive so we took their stuff round and stopped for a cup of tea.
Back to the croft for lunch (soup, whizzed up roasted root veg I’d cooked extra the night before to make into soup.) I got dinner cooked (pasta bake, so cooked pasta, bacon and made white sauce and assembled it all ready to go in the oven), made a cake and got some bread ready bake later. Steve came up and had a cup of tea.
We watched Parent trap (Lindsey Lohan remake, the kids had seen the orginal at J&Js) on lovefilm instant over dinner.
Friday – In the morning we sorted out a floor for the pig ark. We use an old landrover top which suits them really well but as it’s getting colder and likely to get muddy I wanted to ensure they had a dry place to lay down in as pigs can be prone to catching colds. We’ve been modifying their house every time we move them and had got it to the right location within their pen to stop mud just running into the house from the back. We put down some boards and staked them in. The kids were playing down by the river with the dog so I left Ady to tidy up the tools and came back to make cheese on toast for lunch – one of those foods that you get a craving for when someone mentions and simply have to have!
After lunch we all headed down to Fliss and Sandy’s. I’d arranged to go round for crochet and chatted, the kids had been invited too and Sandy had said he’d help Ady put a pallet on top of the Pajero as a roofrack (it’s so Rum, all the best on island cars have one 😉 ). Really feels like we’re part of the gang now! 😆 We had a lovely couple of hours drinking tea, making things out of wool, chatting. Davies and Scarlett played with lego and then with Joss after her nap.
We left and had planned to nip to the shop for a Friday drink and to collect some printing Paul had done for me. Fliss came with us and we had a couple of drinks in the shop chatting to various people then Sandy rang her to ask if we wanted to go back with her for dinner. We’d already got pizza dough proving up here at home but it could keep and Ady had already nipped home to feed the animals and collect Bonnie who we’d left at home. So we did :).
The kids enjoyed watching TV while the adults listened to music, chatted and generally had a nice time. By 11 everyone was tired so we packed ourselves up and came home, managing to drive all the way as it’s been so dry. The moon was so bright we didn’t even need torches.
Ady and I stayed up later than the kids and ordered our new freezer online – it should be here next Saturday 🙂 Very exciting.
Today – Pancakes for breakfast which is a new Saturday morning tradition around here although may cease when the eggs stop coming in winter although I’ve been googling on freezing eggs and it looks worth a go so may do that with the remaining gluts rather than selling them to the castle.
After breakfast we collected up various things we needed to take to the village and headed down to put some washing on at the castle. We went down to meet the boat and I checked the boxes of new library books that had arrived, nothing very exciting but I picked a few to look at and bring home. Our power pack came so we collected that and then went to put the washing in the tumble drier. We called in to Fliss & Sandy’s to drop off a parcel that had come for them, stick the new power pack on charge and collect a chicken from their freezer for dinner tomorrow.
Back to the croft for lunch and then down to the village for the final time to collect the laundry. By then the promised rain had started so the car is now the other side of the river. We all had showers (the kids bath in the deep shower tray), I brushed Scarlett’s hair and have been knitting a scarf, not sure yet whether it’s for me, for selling or for a gift for someone,I’ll have to decide once it’s finished!
Pizza for dinner and we watched Bugsy Malone which arrived today from lovefilm. It didn’t really hold the kids attention but we stuck with it. Everyone is tired which bodes well for the extra hour in bed. I am hoping we can use it to get ourselves better at getting out of bed in the morning as the kids and I are not at all good at that!