Life at Dundreggan – cold and wet.

It’s cold in the cottage and I wake in the night sure there is someone first in the room with me, and then just outside my bedroom door.  I get up; nobody.  The place is full of unusual noises and, almost certainly, a number of rodents.

In the morning Steve (Dundreggan Project Manager) comes round when I’m in the shower.  He asks me to check the wild boar enclosure and add some fencing to the gates.  It rains all day.  I go back to the cottage to eat at 2.30pm.  I’ve managed to sort one of the 6 gates.  I’m wet, even with a full set of waterproofs on.  The heater in the cottage kitchen is broken.

Half an hour later I find that Allan Common has taken the tools I’m using – I think that I’ve seen him drive off in the tractor, but eventually find him up by the enclosure gates.  He’s working on the second gate, with a bloodied hand.  It’s raining harder.  I help him and, without much talking, we manage to finish two other gates in the remaining hour before it gets too dark.

I get in and make some food, then just about manage to pick up a couple of emails on my very flaky internet connection.  They’re not the best part of my day.  Solicitors and girls – I thought things had been going ok, but apparently not.

Thankfully Steve comes round for a chat, so I don’t get too much time to think on things, before tiredness catches up with me and I fall into a deep and relatively untroubled sleep…