Monthly Archives: June 2012
A Full or maybe a Fuel Day
After the fuel delivery yesterday and major stress with pumps not working, to-day delivering the fuel to various tanks went better but it took most of the day. Went to Dry Harbour with their fuel and had time to mow … Continue reading
Oh What a Perfect Day.
Saturday changeover plus Kenny coming with fuel, Dave and Ali coming for T. Just perfect. Another very long day but it is the summer, we are busy and I guess we enjoy it all,but I could have thrown the electric … Continue reading
The Old Man and The Sea
After yesterday’s chiller drama where the cooler unit was tripping out, shifting some polystyrene boxes which were stacked near the cooler blower cured the problem, we think. So this morning it was back to business cutting up the carcase and … Continue reading
Unstoppable Train!!!
There are no railways on Rona, not even cars/roads but sometimes, especially summer time it feels as if we are on an unstoppable train. To-day started slowly after the supper club, it was a late night. I wanted to cut … Continue reading
Don’t Leave Home Without one.
Went out to check the creels this morning, first thing I saw was a Minke Whale and of course no camera. Typical, it was surfacing lots, even when the RIB from Gairloch went steaming past. They were looking West instead … Continue reading
No Time to Read The Paper
Calum and crew arrived with stores and a newspaper, the P&J was sold out but the Times was much appreciated, Ta. Good to see MV Kestrel back. The idea was to check out electronic stuff I did over the winter … Continue reading
Early Bird Catches the ?
Was up this morning at 4.30am, thinking about deer so after 1/2 hour thinking about deer I got up, had a prowl about and saw a few, it was so hot on top of the hill at 5 this morning … Continue reading
Jubilee
It’s the Queen’s day to-day but life continues uninterrupted by street parties on Rona, although we did stop to have a look at the flotilla on the rainy Thames on TV. I don’t suppose the blind stag was aware of … Continue reading
Gone With The Wind.
Cottage change over this morning, the busiest day of the week. Visitors coming and going, yachts leaving and before you know it yachts will be arriving, it is the bank holiday week-end! It was very quiet this morning as the … Continue reading
A Late one
Here we are another long day, Angus and John our farmer friends arrived to-day on their Sabre Yacht ‘Ceol na Mara’, from loch Carron via Rodel. They normally help us out with a few jobs and to-day was finishing the … Continue reading