The wind is supposed to be really bad this coming week, with gusts over 80mph tomorrow. Sigh.
We’ve been making lists of all the things we love about life here, fortunately they are long lists.
The wood shed was disturbingly empty so we grabbed the opportunity of spells of sunshine and non gale force winds to top that up a bit with Ady bringing the wood up the hill and me chopping and stacking it. I also made dough for flatbreads for lunch, pastry for an apple tart for pudding and prepped the roast dinner (venison, yum!). The kids tidied their bedrooms which were in quite a state – too much stuff, too little space.
After lunch they walked down to the village to collect the post from the car which is our unofficial post box. Ady scythed the grass ready for the pig fence to go up and I made the tart, washed up and then got distracted on my way to go and chop a bit more wood by the state of the window frame in the bathroom so ended up cleaning that instead, which led to cleaning the two window frames in our bedroom too. The caravan is leaking water / dripping condensation / dire combination of the two infront of both doors and is just feeling generally very tired and in need of some TLC – it seems to get battered from the inside and outside. In the style of a womens magazine readers tips page I actually used an old toothbrush to scrub the fiddly bits and it worked really well.
Bad Neil turned up then so Ady and he came in for a cup of tea and chat which pretty much took us up to animal feeding time. I went out with Ady and checked on Barbara who is looking beautifully pregnant and very happy. Ady showed me what he had scythed and we talked about a slightly different way of doing the electric fence this time and came in and ordered some bits for that. I got dinner on and fiddled with some nail wrap things that had come in the post. The kids watched back to back Doctor Who on the disc that had also come in the post (lovefilm), I had a shower and went back to my bicarb shampoo and vinegar conditioner as my hair has been horribly greasy since coming back from the mainland and using ‘normal’ shampoo and conditioner.
Dinner was lovely, as was apple tart for dessert. Tomorrow’s plan is Big Pig Move continuing if weather permits and some getting stuff ready for the tourist season craft wise if not.