Highlight of the week was going to the pizza place for Xmas lunch with book club -- this is the Xmas pizza with turkey, pigs in blankets, Brussels sprouts, and cranberry sauce -- yum yum yum!

Got another swim on Saturday so that is 64 for the year thus far -- should be able to make 65 I think although weather for the next week is looking not swim-able (and also like we may not be able to have a fire for solstice...)

Collected some more surplus windows from various people on the island for the future poly-tunnel project -- if anybody on Sanday is reading this and has any old windows/glass that you want rid of, LMK and we will come fetch...

And of course various cooking/baking -- I've made a goose stew (from a wild Greylag goose, shot by somebody else and gifted to us) and a lemon drizzle cake (practising for next summer's show!)

My boring life... :)

 ...just the way I like it...  :)

And herein lies the problem with doing more frequent blog posts -- is that I have nothing of note to report...

It's winter, so not much is going on outdoors.  I've been doing plenty of cooking & baking & endless cleaning in a futile attempt to keep the mud out of the house.  (Never mind summer, autumn, etc -- we have two seasons here -- the mud season and the dry season...  The mud is everywhere and it's totally unavoidable.  The car skids on the mud when you drive down the driveway now...)

And that's all my news for now!  :)