Now I understood why the soup at lunchtime tasted so good: the school office staff had taken to spending their mornings making fresh batches on campus.

Today the office fridges were crammed with pumpkins to be roasted with garlic and red peppers in the small office oven. I suggested that the pumpkin shells be saved for use as serving bowls.

Meanwhile outside on the machair work had started on a new building for the Research and Innovation Office. I guessed that JK would choose the room at the front so that she could enjoy the view west across the sea, and the magnificent Hebridean sunsets.