The days are getting so much shorter. Sunrise is stunning over the sea at about 730am and by 730pm it is being stunning in the opposite chunk of sky. 12 hours is still a fair bit of daylight really given we’ll shrink to about half that in the coming three months but winter is closing in. Trees are changing colour, the stags are starting to roar and there is the smell of autumn in the air.
After Popmaster Ady and I headed to the village to get the key to the gas cage and collect the car which has been on charge (the battery only lasts a week before running out. We are pricing up quad bikes as our next investment currently), then to the pier to collect a gas bottle, put rubbish in the skip, collect the two loads of washed and dried washing we processed yesterday, drop the key to the gas cage back off at the trust office and back home again. The kids spent ages playing with the trolley (big green cart on wheels we bought to bring stuff up and down the hill and we all call ‘t trolleh’ in a northern voice for some unknown reason), we all found at least one stash of chicken, duck and bantam eggs so now have a minor glut – something very satisfying about happening upon a nest of six eggs, wandering down to the river to float them to check if they are fresh and then putting them in the honesty box ready for selling.
I took advantage of the slight wind to have a fire and burn all the cardboard and general rubbish which is alway satisfying, took some seeds and other stuff down to the polytunnel but didn’t venture in for long as the midges were briefly out and about.
Later Ady and I fed the animals then took the empty gas bottle back to the pier and walked home.
Emails today revealed two dinner invites for later this week – hurrah 🙂
Busy couple of days ahead with meetings galore.
Davies has been lego-ing lots and making animations on his 3ds, Scarlett briefly experimented with being a stroppy pre teen but swiftly decided it was a bad idea.