Tuesday – we took the day off. A bit part of our new life is the ability to take time off whenever and wherever we feel like it, for whatever reason. Tuesday the reason was the sun shining and part of the island we’d not explored yet calling to us. We had diesel in the Pajero so off we went! First thing we let the chickens and ducks out and spent some time doing the one parent: one child thing. I was with Scarlett and we wrote some more in her river diary and brought that up to date then did some upper case, lower case writing stuff. Ady and Davies are reading a book from the library about Scottish History and reasons why people have left so they were learning together on that one.
We packed up lunch, did a quick run down to the village to collect water and pick up some DG notes for our diesel cans going off on Calmac and also got the keys for Harris Lodge which is open to residents then we were away.
Harris is the western tip of Rum and while the beach does not have the sandy beauty of Kilmory it certainly has drama and majesty in the landscape and views. We saw the highland cattle, feral goats, rum ponies and several deer, along with various seabirds (still not the elusive eagles!) and did some fine beachcombing. There is plenty of litter ripe for collecting but we didn’t really find anything worth bringing home. It was a lovely few hours though in the sunshine and we returned with knackered dog and children.
It was the first of our Come Dine With Me evenings and Scarlett had asked to go first. She wanted to make pizza for main course and after looking through a cookbook decided to make profiteroles for dessert. She then chose a starter too and went for potatoe wedges with dips. All from scratch! 🙂 I helped and guided but she did an amazing job of the whole thing, particularly the choux pastry. She had to substitute condensed milk for cream as the shop didn’t have any cream (end of the week dairy produce delivery wise!) but it was all delicious :).
Ady and Davies put the birds to bed while Tarly and I cleared up and I wandered down to the village with the intention of catching up online but failed as there was an educational group using the hall for a slideshow so I sat outside and quickly downloaded emails before heading back home.
I’ve now run out of time to catch up today so the title is a lie and this is just Tuesday!
I was just about to ask if you’d seen any ponies yet! Won’t be able to persuade T to come if not…! It all sounds brilliant. xxx
Comment by Jo — 14 May 2012 @ 11:48 am