Whats The Point - January 2007

Hello and Welcome to my blog, this is intended to be a day to day/ week to week journal of our move from Margate on the southeast coast of England to the far flung Island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides ( well it certainly feels it when we arrive 700 miles,15 hours,3 squabbling kids and a ferry ride later)

Above is a picture of our new house,in Upper Aird, Point, well 'new' is not really right ,' quite old and in need of love' would be more accurate, so old no one knew it existed at least not as far as the Electric,Water and phone companies were concerned! Before our visit we had the electricity turned on, or so we thought. A pity the house, although wired had never actually been connected to the mains electricity! So our first visit was spent by candle light, with a camping stove for cooking,bottled water,sleeping bags, no heating and lots of layers!! .The electricity supply had to be arranged for the next visit ,as we needed a new meter because the one installed was a virtual antique according to the Electric man, who confessed he hadn't seen one like it for about 25 years!. We had better luck with the water supply, after much furtive searching and metal detecting by the water board we finally found where it needed to be switched on, and 'Hey Presto' we had fresh water for Tea and even a flushing loo!! such luxury after a few days without! No more trips to the garage to fill water containers and buy bottled water.Of course where its all going could be another story.....