It’s almost been a weekend off actually.
Yesterday morning I went off to work where I had my usual enjoyable couple of hours being Mrs Post. I was patronised by Stuart the headmaster, Emily from the castle, Dave and his brother, Ross and Lesley’s brother Gordon – all heading to the boat to go off, Bad Neil and Norman. The boat brought me new wellies, dog food and some mystery items squirreled away by Ady. Too much to carry so I left it all there and walked home to return later with the car.
Back at the croft Davies was feeling much better and none of the rest of us have shown signs of the Mainland Cold so far so fingers crossed we may have avoided it. Ady had been busy with various things and had a productive morning. We had a cup of tea and then he and I went back to the village with the car to collect post and parcels, get some stuff out from the freezer for dinners and some venison steaks from the freezer for dinner on my birthday. On the way home the car died and Ady was worried that the effort taken to restart it again would have drained the battery too much to start it again from cold next time. So we went home for lunch and then took the car back down to the village to put it on charge at the workshop overnight, then walked home. I wore my new wellies which rubbed my heel – need to break them in!
We had a mammoth Good, Bad, Learnt in 2013 session with hopes for 2014 which is always good and life affirming 🙂 Then I cooked dinner and we watched a couple of episodes of The Good Life and a Will & Grace. The two sit side by side in a quite pleasing manner somehow… Ady and I also unwound a new spool of electric fence wire onto my new electric fence wire spool designed to prevent tiresome tangles of electric fence and preserve sanity. We’ll see…
Today was grey and drizzly so I stayed in bed reading – I’m reading the latest Bridget Jones and although it took a while to get into I am actually really enjoying it, it feels like catching up with an old friend on facebook after ten years! I keep finding myself wanting to post on fb, ff or my blog in Bridget style – Rainfall 5cm, minutes spent walking in rain 57, mud splatters on previously clean jeans 1 million, alcohol units 4 (not good), percentage of day spent obsessing over imminent big birthday 23 (good). 😉
I had planned to do some pig fence stuff but Ady had done some fixing of the fence earlier and persuaded me it was far too cold and grey to be outside so instead I spent ages trying to sort out the phone signal issue. I have now actually got someone at o2 to concede there is a network problem and assure me that they are working on it. They are refunding us both 10 days worth of money (we’ve been without for 6 days, if it reaches 8 I will get in touch again) and we’ve to keep checking to see if it comes back up. Tiresome, tedious and very annoying. We do at least have emergency call cover which is heartening incase of needing proper help in a hurry up here. Fingers crossed it gets sorted soon.
As it was windy we had the internet on for a lot of the day so I faffed on facebook a bit, chatted to some friends and Scarlett watched stuff on a tablet while Davies stayed in bed until it was afternoon watching something on a phone. Almost like ‘normal’ families on a Sunday 😉
We had lunch / breakfast / whatever you call it when you eat cheese on toast at about midday and it’s the first meal of the day for some of you and the second for some others… Then Ady and I donned our orange waterproofs and headed down to collect the car from the village and take Bonnie for a bit of a leg stretch. Back at home we fed animals, brought in firewood, put almost dry washing on the airer and then Ady cooked dinner and I made bread. A really relaxed lovely Sunday.
I don’t actually know what is planned for tomorrow, I know there have been emails circulating with me missed out of the loop so suspect something is afoot and I know there will be bacon sandwiches for breakfast and venison steaks for dinner. Other than that I am happy to be led around like a woman of certain years 😉 🙂