Work for me this morning. I’d tried to get hold of Jinty as I had heard she was back and wondered whether she wanted me to do post office or whether she would do it. I went down anyway as Neil & I needed to do various Rum Venison paperwork tidying and posting off. Jinty was already there but very happy for me to do post office although she ended up hanging around too anyway, doing orders and catching up with stuff. Jed & Neil were around for most of the morning for tea and chat too, it was all nice and sociable. Good to see Jinty back.
Ady came down to collect me and loads of us ended up at the pier early for the boat so stood around chatting. We were not sure if our latest WWOOFer Emmanuel from France would come off or not but Calmac (who are being arses at the moment in the post strike days, Rum appears to have lost loads of parcels including about £100 worth of Amazon subscribe and save grocery deliveries for us. I know we can sort it out with Amazon if we have to but it’s stuff like flour and loo roll that we actually just really need!) had been mean to Jinty about her delivery and tried to send it back to the supplier this morning so loads of us were there to help unload it. In the end it was on a van after all and they left the van on island between boats so it was all a fuss over nothing. Emmanuel did come off the boat – hurrah!
We came home for lunch, chats and the tour of the croft for Emmanuel. Then the weather changed to rain so we came back in for another cup of tea and he ended up sat on the floor with Davies and Scarlett playing with lego. So he will be one we don’t lose to the craziness down at the shop! 🙂 He is happy to feed the animals while we’re off this week too which is great.
The rain showed no signs of stopping so we walked down to the shop, showed E the hall and village centre and stopped for a beer and some chat at the shop. Jinty’s dad had managed to duplicate most of the orders and got random extra selections of some things including 48 packs of bananas (he thought he was ordering 4 bags, it was actually 4 outers of 12!) so Jinty was doing bargain 2 for a £1 sales on them which had us all competing to see who could sell the most to all the customers who came along. Very funny 🙂 These are the sort of in jokes that I would miss forever if we ever left here I think.
Emmanuel is tasked with bring wood up the hill tomorrow morning while we’re at work, Ady and I are at the hostel I believe dismantling bunk beds. We seem to have worked a lot this last couple of weeks but it does mean we tend to be super productive in the afternoons on the croft, so no bad thing.