Monday – the weather was hideous. 60mph winds with 80mph gusts. Ady insisted on going outside a couple of times but could barely stand up out there. It tipped with rain too and we were getting regular text messages from people in the village checking if we were ok so unusually it was also pretty blowy down there too which futher discouraged us from venturing out.
Ady made a string thing across the shelf above our bed to stop things from falling on us in the night when it’s windy. I finished knitting a scarf, checked stocks of scarves and midges in resin and sorted out yarn for another 3 more scarves. I also made bread, rolls, soup and did some work on a croft3 website. Davies and Scarlett did some drawing, watched some stuff on iplayer, connected on their tablets, did some balloon modelling and chatted about their plans for crafts to sell this year.
It would have been a nice indoor day were it not for the rain entering the caravan at various  doors and windows, the condensation dripping off the windows, the roof and walls rattling and the trees swaying outside. I was feeling a bit ‘bring it on!’ about the whole thing which is probably silly, you don’t really get to be defiant against the wind but never mind.
Today Ady was painting with Bad Neil so he was up and away. I spent the morning doing the newsletter, replying to a few emails and clearing my inbox and then went outside to start repairing the fruit cage. I stopped at a natural break in the repairing to come in for lunch and we had leftover soup and listened to the tail end of something on the radio. The sun was still shining and it was a gorgeous afternoon so the kids took Bonnie off for a walk down to the village to check for post while I carried on with the fruit cage. I didn’t get my after lunch cup of tea because Tom and Barbara pig had gotten out and were up by the caravan though. The kids and I snuck over to their pen and I shook the food bucket and called them while the kids stood by and raised the fence for them to come in and then closed it behind them. Excellent teamwork 🙂 I strongly suspected they would be out again but they stayed put all afternoon and Ady swapped the battery over when he got home.
Ady and the kids came back together so we all had a cup of tea and sat on the sporran in the sunshine. Hard to believe it is the same world as yesterday let alone the same place just 24 hours later.
I went back to my fruit cage while Ady did some more work on the Big Pig Move. It is now just waiting for some fence holder things we ordered off ebay and a whole day of forecast decent weather to do the actual move – hopefully Sunday I think looking at the forecast at the moment,
We were outside til 630pm tonight and it was still light 🙂 I cooked dinner and made bread and we listened to Popmaster on iplayer.