Don’t expect much from me tonight chaps, it’s 23:00 and I’m just in the house, mind you I didn’t actually get out of bed until after 9:00am. Not through any kind of overindulgence but just pure whacked after a hard physical and hot day.
Before 8:00am yesterday I’d done a couple of hours work, at 10:00am today I was still in my pyjamas.
A couple of poached ‘Arnish eggs’ setting me up nicely for the day 🙂
Shortly after that however I was out with Charlie and Molly to ‘blow the cobwebs away’ on a walk from Tarbert to Arnish. Wifey was heading for the ferry and I got her to drop us off a mile or so down ‘Calum’s road’ then we could wander back along the old ‘short cut’.
Before the council finally adopted ‘Calum’s road’ and tarred it there was a path from here to Arnish that cut out the Rubh Crion.
What was at one time almost a flight of steps down the steep hillside had long since vanished but we picked out a route that was probably not far from the original.
Once on top of the hill i soaked up the fine views towards Lewis and Skye
before finding the old path for sure.
The evidence of which was plainly visible in these carefully positioned stones in a bog.
Arriving at the new house site we found Bracken asleep in the old oil tank and Toots in a puddle 🙂
As the pair of them were in the boundary of the new house/barn site I decided to keep them there out of the way. Rocky will be back shortly and I don’t want Toots getting served as she’s due for the chop 😦 With that in mind I did a few checks on the electric fence, making sure the battery was charged and no bracken or grass was shorting out the wires.
The Portree creel boat ‘Green Isle II’ working away in Loch Arnish as I did so.
By midday the ‘wacky trousers’ from http://www.skyebatiks.com/ were on and I started loading up my trailer with sand and aggregate in the vain hope that I might get some concrete poured.
Of course things did not go as planned and now I’m off to bed 🙂
Life at the end of the road 
