Time ...

 One jeans patch done, two more pairs to save from their doom!!

This has taken an hour....enough time for sitting. I enjoyed the hand work though.

That was after doing the washing up and a bit of tidying and sorting..preceded by half an hour on Duolingo.

It would be so easy to sit here all day!!

I was hoping for a little more sunshine after a break in proceedings yesterday afternoon, but we are back to rain and wind.

Nevertheless it is time to venture out!!

There is paint for the workshop on the shopping list and delivering the huge suitcase filled with surplus clothes and bedding to a charity/"op"  shop.  I think Shelter Scotland, as all over the world people need homes and help.

Unfortunately this means using the car...but as I haven't used it for a week it probably is a good idea to give it a run. I don't want it sulking when I do need it!!

Using the car also means making a list and a route plan to save time and fuel.

I like going by bus, but carrying heavy things to and from town, plus the fact that it would take several different buses in and out of town in various directions to the edge means that the car has won the day.  Shops moving out of town has a lot to answer for. Yes it takes car and lorry traffic out of the centre, but it also kills the centre, and all the closed shops in many towns evidences that.

Autumn Equinox, time.

 The days feel different now, as the day length reduces.

It is a dissatisfied uneasy feeling as I wake before dawn. Changing the clocks will put everything upside down again! At least for a while..until the last Sunday in October...we will only be 12 hours behind New Zealand, which will make Pirate's phone calls to friends easier! No need to guess if he is too early or late!

The cultivated blackberries are giving us about half a kilo a day, we are eating and freezing plenty..plus the wild ones we forage too.  I need to pick some more elderberries as blackberry and elderberry jelly preserve is planned. Also apples for juice,

and keeping too if we can find the right ones.

Pirate has had a reassuring call from the head doctor in our local practice...but we still need that call from the specialist nurse next week.  He is still Mr Grumpy...but it will pass!!

We are watching the fuel situation carefully. It should calm down in 48 hours..after all you can't hoard fuel like loo rolls! It's worrying though, with some neccessary journeys coming up. 

We can't quite make South Wales without a fuel stop..or rather we possibly could, but that would leave us arriving with the tank lower in fuel than is comfortable, especially in an older vehicle.

Therefore one journey might have to be foregone.

time

Time can flash by...visitors sadly waved off early..they have to be in Ullapool by 5.30 pm at the latest, to check in for the ferry to Stornoway.

Now I'm trying to date fix a visit to daughter and family around Pirate's next race..no point having two long trips southwards....and we must get back to the Western Isles for a return visit.

We haven't done either for about two years....too long....