This week

It's been a good week. The cottage is starting to feel organised, we're working our way through the list of people we want to contact (and help us!) and Ailsa seems to be well settled at school. Here's a few highlights (eh?)

1. I thought I heard a lorry this morning.
2. Ailsa seems to be one of the 2 or 3 kids in school with a wii. This has already prompted random children to turn up demanding playtime.
3. Tim, a neighbour who renovated his croft house, says 'don't use the polyurethane blocks for insulation! They might have higher U values but the wind just whips round them - use glass wool'.
4. If you're looking for a story about cats stealing food from unlikely places - Phyllis is yer woman - like the time her cats stole lamb chops from the frying pan while they were being cooked.
5. I have trouble differentiating between past and passed. Well at least it shows someone is reading the blog.
6. Life, so far, is great here. I'm working quite hard on the garden and the house - but it feels bloody marvellous. OK - so we might still be in the honeymoon period - but it is brilliant. This week has been much warmer and despite all the hard work - there's lots of time to just sit and...
7. Yesterday I saw three buzzards sort of dancing in the air.
8. There is loads of bird song here - with no other noise except the stream, the waves when the wind is right and the odd sheep. Ted needs to bring his recording equipment.
9. Jussi fancies being a chimney sweep. dont ask.
10. I was in a meeting once and the aim was to come up with a list. We got nine really good things to add to the list - job done? No, the facilitator insisted we all stayed and thought of a tenth - because ten is a good number of points for a list. So eventually we finished with a list of nine good points and one totally superficial and useless one. How pointless is that? Well fortunately I'm not like that and I'm happy to stay with nine points. Soddit.