The new sleeping bag is doing well. It is smaller than our old two zipped together but they were about 6 years old and had been in full time service for the last 3 years in Willow and then here. The one which is still intact (the zips busted on one) is now seeing out it’s life with Davies who loves it.
I woke to an email from John, the editor of the Scottish Islands magazine who I did a guest column for last year. I’d chased him to ask if there was any chance of paid writing work last week and he said they may be and he was sorting out the schedule for coming issues. He has offered me an article for the end of 2014. It’s not much money at all (under £100) but I’m very chuffed and motivated to chase some more work now.
It’s been sporadically rainy today and I got stuck into reading a book about cob so was not inspired to head outside. Both the kids had a lengthy bath shower (running the large shower tray full with plug in gives a small shallow bath for them) Scarlett was in there for nearly two hours! Scarlett then had hair brushing, Davies had a haircut before going in. A low key day with various incidental chats, listening to the radio, discussing William Roach when that news broke, reading aloud bits of the book when I was particularly inspired. Davies has been writing a minecraft poem – I think he was inspired by our Burns Night poems and has been asking me to make up more ever since. He still checks spellings of many words but pretty much seems to remember them the next time and not need to check again.
Ady sorted out the water into the static, it’s been playing up a bit with air trapped in the pipe and the pump not doing it’s usual priming and we were worried the pump may be on it’s way out. It turned out to just be a kinked bit of pipe but he did have to go under the caravan to find and fix it. In the last week he has sorted out at least one thing every day which previously we’d have needed to call someone to help with. Old dogs, new tricks 🙂
At 5pm we left the kids home and headed down via feeding the animals to the village. Ady is covering Vikki’s job of cleaning the campsite and hall loos so he did that and then we went to the RCA meeting. A good meeting with a few things thrashed out. Manager Mike then asked me if I’d be up for singing with the band and I said yes. Very pleased about that too 🙂 Band practice tomorrow night.
Home for dinner, a slow cooked joint of our own pork which was very delicious 🙂 We’ve run out of Will and Grace so have gone back to Friends again while we wait for the next series to arrive on dvd.