Friday morning was a stressy one. I’d left the post office open and asked Ali to come and give me a hand doing the end of week process from Wednesday. It took us most of the two hours to do so and while I was fairly que cera cera about the whole business Ali was very stressed and shouty at everyone who came in. We did it though (I think!) and I came home for lunch.
I spent some time in the afternoon doing directorly emails and then made pizza dough and spend some time down on the plot / in the polytunnel. Friday night is pizza and Doctor Who night and we watched both of a double parter. The kids are really into Doctor Who and have rewatched all of Primeval on netflix.
Saturday was post office again but back into my comfort zone with it. Neil and Jed came for tea and chats and then just as I was about to close Fliss appeared so she came in and I shut the door but made her a cup of tea and chatted too. It meant I was later leaving post office but that was fine as I was meeting Ady at the end of his hostel shift anyway. We got various stuff up the hill including loads of clean and dry laundry which I sorted and folded while Ady made lunch.
The weather was odd, really low cloud which looked like threatening rain and not very warm but actually not raining so I went to do some weeding. It was pretty midgey so I kept stopping and waiting for the breeze to lift again but it was not particularly relaxing down there. I finished weeding a bed though, so that is now ready to be netted and have stuff transplanted from the polytunnel in the next few weeks. I fed the animals with Ady and collected some wildflowers from the croft.
We had a really nice curry for dinner.
Sunday – Ady and I had both slept really badly. I woke at about 530am and got up to go to the loo finding Ady asleep in the lounge and the bed soaking wet as the ceiling was leaking and it was pouring with rain. I assumed Ady had been woken by that too and gone into the lounge but he said that actually he’d been really fidgeting and I’d sleepily shouted at him twice that he was disturbing me so he’d come into the lounge. I don’t remember! I covered the duvet with a sleeping bag, read for a while and then found a dry bit of bed and went back to sleep. This does not bode well for winter….
The weather today has been dry (although as I type it is tipping down with rain again) but the same as yesterday threatening rain all day. It has been windy though so the kids have had access to the internet all day as the wind turbine was whizzing round with loads of power. They went to the village to collect the post after lunch and drop off a thank you card and gift to Sean and Nicola who looked after the ducklings while we were away. I did lots of knitting – I have another three scarves all ready to be labelled up and taken down to the craft shop and am part way through another – tunisian crochet is super quick! Then I went and did some more weeding for an hour or so. I would have stayed down there longer as I was very happy singing and weeding with my two favourite chicken helpers who I pass worms to but Scarlett came down to say Neil had come to visit. He needed some bank stuff for the venison company as Neil and I are standing down and Steve is taking it on but there are some final admin bits to sort out. He stopped for a cup of tea and chat by which time it was late so Ady went to feed the animals and I carried on with my scarf. Ady cooked dinner and we watched a Doctor Who and then the latest dvd of Eureka which had arrived. Very disappointingly it only had 2 episodes on it plus a longer length version of one of the episodes which we only realised after we’d watched the short version. Grrr.