Sorry the technology doesn't work for me....
Posted: Friday, 17 August 2007 |
Apologies everyone I have failed dismally to get pics on for you all to ooooh and aahhhhhh at. The technology has beaten me, daughter home on thursday and IBHQ working on it too so maybe they can crack it!
One thing I miss from the mainland are skips - you know the sort that get parked outside houses with those little lights on so that cars don't crash into them - not the huge big green things that we have here. I think I must be quite sad as whenever I saw a skip it would have to be investigated - some of my best finds have been in skips, big wooden chair, lovely wood and mouldings, chests of drawers, gateleg table. My husband and daughter would cringe in embarrassment and use diverting tactics - anything to avoid me examining the contents of a skip e.g 'look at this lovely lamppost' or 'shall we turn left here' you know that sort of thing - so obvious! In my rummagings I have often wondered if I might find something really worth something to anyone apart from me - like a jewel encrusted crown thrown away by mistake, no, all I find are others cast offs which I am more than happy to claim and rejuvenate with a bit of elbow grease and steel wool and my favourite shade of wishy washy blue paint - very similar to the lovely ethereal light we get in the islands - I bought a very large can of it from one those twee lifestyle stores and am still only half way through it - but I shall save the rest for the palais de poulets.
The hot water is still off in the kitchen, the plumber is away on the mainland, he'll be along on thursday to start the replumbing and to install a new pressurised water heating system. The dead washing machine has gone in the special collection, all our stuff is in store and has been for a year nearly however what with my skip raidings, car bootings and charity shop collections I don't think we need to get the stuff out but the washing machine would be useful! The storage man says he know which container the washing machine is in but he's too busy right now to get it out - I have offered him money but I think I will have to resort to threatening him with my dirty smalls (or in my case dirty bigs!).
The 'special collection' took place today at 11.30am my neighbour up the road tells me (I was out), she came down to shut the gates earlier as a likely looking sheep was eyeing up the herbage in the garden thinking breakfast lunch and tea all in one go or maybe she had some rubbish to add to the pile! Tthe belgian girls had left the gates open after they struck camp and headed off up north to callanais. The yard is looking very clear but now there are the bits and pieces from inside the new sheds to clear out - bits of wood and insulation, have heard there is a new skip today, nearby, I'm not going to say where in case you get there first! Did you hear about the car in the skip in south harris? It was in the paper - needed 'special handling' (the skip that is) to lift it and get rid of the car. How do you get a whole car in a skip? It's not like a garage with doors at ground level I bet that took special handling to get it in there!
The heron has been visiting again today along with some very large herring gulls who lurk about on the rocks in the river. The salmon are about but the mink seem to prefer the grey mullet in the loch - I hope the trappers manage to clear the area before the chooks arrive! I'll tell you about the daleks arriving later!
One thing I miss from the mainland are skips - you know the sort that get parked outside houses with those little lights on so that cars don't crash into them - not the huge big green things that we have here. I think I must be quite sad as whenever I saw a skip it would have to be investigated - some of my best finds have been in skips, big wooden chair, lovely wood and mouldings, chests of drawers, gateleg table. My husband and daughter would cringe in embarrassment and use diverting tactics - anything to avoid me examining the contents of a skip e.g 'look at this lovely lamppost' or 'shall we turn left here' you know that sort of thing - so obvious! In my rummagings I have often wondered if I might find something really worth something to anyone apart from me - like a jewel encrusted crown thrown away by mistake, no, all I find are others cast offs which I am more than happy to claim and rejuvenate with a bit of elbow grease and steel wool and my favourite shade of wishy washy blue paint - very similar to the lovely ethereal light we get in the islands - I bought a very large can of it from one those twee lifestyle stores and am still only half way through it - but I shall save the rest for the palais de poulets.
The hot water is still off in the kitchen, the plumber is away on the mainland, he'll be along on thursday to start the replumbing and to install a new pressurised water heating system. The dead washing machine has gone in the special collection, all our stuff is in store and has been for a year nearly however what with my skip raidings, car bootings and charity shop collections I don't think we need to get the stuff out but the washing machine would be useful! The storage man says he know which container the washing machine is in but he's too busy right now to get it out - I have offered him money but I think I will have to resort to threatening him with my dirty smalls (or in my case dirty bigs!).
The 'special collection' took place today at 11.30am my neighbour up the road tells me (I was out), she came down to shut the gates earlier as a likely looking sheep was eyeing up the herbage in the garden thinking breakfast lunch and tea all in one go or maybe she had some rubbish to add to the pile! Tthe belgian girls had left the gates open after they struck camp and headed off up north to callanais. The yard is looking very clear but now there are the bits and pieces from inside the new sheds to clear out - bits of wood and insulation, have heard there is a new skip today, nearby, I'm not going to say where in case you get there first! Did you hear about the car in the skip in south harris? It was in the paper - needed 'special handling' (the skip that is) to lift it and get rid of the car. How do you get a whole car in a skip? It's not like a garage with doors at ground level I bet that took special handling to get it in there!
The heron has been visiting again today along with some very large herring gulls who lurk about on the rocks in the river. The salmon are about but the mink seem to prefer the grey mullet in the loch - I hope the trappers manage to clear the area before the chooks arrive! I'll tell you about the daleks arriving later!
Posted on shortlegsthesheep at 22:28
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I think I remember reading that the mink on Harris were let out by misguided 'animal rights' activists. But I may be wrong. Anyway, whether it was them or the mink farmers having escapes, it was a rotten thing to do to the native fauna.
Flying Cat from not tackling mink
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