Wednesday morning was pretty grim weather, again. Ady and I put up the price signs on slates I had made but that was about the sum total for me of productive on the croft stuff. After lunch I went down to Crafternoon. Ady came with me to get stuff from the freezer for dinner. Had a nice couple of hours down there with Fliss, Ali and Deb.
Thursday we went to the boat in the morning, we had petrol going off. Animal feed delivery and meat order came off for us along with a couple I’ve been chatting with on facebook who are here for a few days. He came last summer to do a mountain leaders course and is currently doing off grid living in a van, she has a 3 yo son and a life in North Wales so despite him being very keen to make a life here she is less enthused. They are over for a few days wild camping and walking during which he is hoping to persuade her.
Lots of treks to and fro the Jeep with wheelbarrows to empty the car of animal feed, compost and straw, feeding animals and then down to the monthly community meeting for Ady and I. We took wheelbarrows with us to collect veg and a sack of coal. The meeting was fairly productive, first we’ve been to in months. I abandoned my barrow of coal once we got to the fork as I am unsteady enough on flat ground in good shoes in broad daylight, pushing a wheelbarrow in the dark on our track seemed rather misguided! Home for burger and chips for dinner.
Today we had planned all week to be a trip across to Harris. We’ve been meaning to get there all year to see whether the winter storms had washed up any interesting treasure on the beach and today looked good on the weather forecast and was a no boat day so seemed a good plan. Everyone up and on the road by midday for a lovely few hours over there in the sunshine. We found various ‘treasure’ and carted it all back across the beach to the car then back up from car to croft. Some driftwood, fishboxes and random plastic tat which Ady plans to make water filters from, a whole box of stuff for Scarlett including footballs, deer antlers, two goat horns, an unidentified skull and further random plastic tat. Scarlett corrected me that it ‘was not random plastic tat, it is precious loot!’ when I dismissed it as such 🙂
Home for a cup of tea on the sporran, animal feeding, a search party to find Waddles the runty pig who had followed us as far as the footbridge when we left earlier then tried to keep pace with us in the woodland on the other side of the river as she doesn’t want to cross the river. We thought she’d get bored and come home once we’d gone but she’d obviously hung around and missed her dinner. Ady and I walked back that way calling her and she met us halfway. She is just like a dog!
Pizza and Doctor Who this evening. Everyone tired from the fresh air and exercise. I am feeling Very Old today.