Progress

We went to the house where I tried to set up the big telescope and failed.
The heating engineers were there. They said they had tried the under floor heating earlier and that they would finish the heat exchange system this week.
We will be able to move in before the path from road to house is finished and I think we will.
Next we will arrange for the easy chair to be delivered and then the bed and bits and pieces of furniture and fittings.
After that we have to prepare for the removal of heavy stuff from the current house. This means packing a lot of stuff to get it out of the way of the heavy mob.
I have had offers of help with moving and will get a couple of people to help move pots of plants, various implements, pressure washer, strimmer etc. from the front garden. They will not look so much like a rubbish dump when they are rearranged over our new land.
Meanwhile we are playing Scrabble every Monday and go to the old peoples club every fortnight.
I am playing chess every couple of weeks and tafl every month or so.
I also play a version of chess with a board 10 squares by 10 plus four extra corner squares. There are three extra pieces. I think they are counsellor, wizard and fool but I'm not certain about counsellor.
I will try to play more frequently when we move and at home to avoid too much travelling.
It still keeps raining. The ponies paddocks are a mess. They were chopped up by their hooves and have not recovered yet. The ponies themselves are quite happy trespassing on Harry's land. We will put them in the croft house (ruin) garden again soon. But by we I mean Janet and a co-opted neighbour.
We have to contact Gregor to finish the en suite. He has a cupboard to put up in their. It was designed for various medical equipment I used before but we will use it for stuff I need now.
We have seen redwing and fieldfare passing through recently and curlew, wimbril, oystercatcher on their way back to Fetlar to breed.
When we move in we hope to see snipe, redshank, curlew and possibly greylag geese all nesting in the back garden.
I have seen more rabbits about. One of  them looked really big. I may have to be sure I have someone with me when I go out in the garden.
We are looking forward to a succession of visitors and will encourage them to smack in fence posts, move furniture, plant spuds and help build rubbish sack containers in the garden. Luckily the days are getting longer so they may have time to go fishing for our tea etc.
I'm not sure who's reading this stuff. If there are readers I should say that I am indoors at present with a strong wind outside and driving rain. I have a cold...well its probably man flu but I will get over it soon.
Mycomputer is getting stroppy so I will publish this before it gets eaten by gremlins.