Sunday 21 February 2016

Our Warm and Cosy Home

Daryll has finished building the outside of the house, and he has fitted a woodturner to keep us cosy. This means we can now sleep inside, and the van is just used as a kitchen, and for getting about. 

Our new mission now is to find wood! There are hardly any trees on Harris, so we are constantly hauling up driftwood from our lovely beaches. The best wood always seems to be on beaches far from a road, so we have used the canoe to collect some really good bits and float them back to our little sea loch at Miabhag.

Our little sea loch is quite a good place to find driftwood, but an even better place to find mussels, cockles and oysters TO EAT!

Questions: Do you know what I mean by driftwood? What are mussels, cycles and oysters?

Alfie loves helping find driftwood, but he likes to chew it into little bits. As you can see by the photo, he is also very interested in shellfish. He can actually crunch them up with his sharp teeth! Do you know any other dog that can do that? I don't!