Terrible weather this week with gales, severe at time and heavy rain. We had gone a whole week without any boats to the island, until we managed a half-day for visitors yesterday. However, no sailings again today and the unsettled spell, (if you can call 8 weeks a mere ‘spell’) looks set to continue for a few more days. Although for anyone thinking of visiting it does look to be settling down from around Wednesday onwards…..
We all began to run out of food, although the island’s tuck shop helped to sustain us. A run on chocolate and flapjacks kept the energy levels up but we now have the most enormous tabs to pay off. A more serious problem is that we also ran out of toothpaste, not great with the amount of sugary snacks we have been consuming. So please don’t be offended if next time you see us we don’t greet you with a big smile, it won’t be personal, it may just be that all our teeth have fallen out!
Luckily, supplies arrived in the shape of our new volunteers yesterday and the toothpaste crisis has been averted. We also had gifts of home-grown tomatoes (to ward of the scurvy) and a rather handsome Cheese plant, that although looks very statuesque in our kitchen window, apparently does not produce lumps of cheddar at regular intervals. Shame……
(by Lisa Morgan)