running grunt watch

Hi Jeff

So using drupal 8.4.2 and adaptive themes and at tools 8.x-3.0... I'm working locally on my dev environment.

I go to the theme folder and type

npm install
grunt watch

I get watching....

I go to base.scss (to put in some overrides as I often do... not sure if that's the best place but seems to work) and insert just a space to test grunt is working and I get the following:

>> Error: File to import not found or unreadable: ../../../../../layout/flex-builder/sass/flex-builder-base.
>>        Parent style sheet: /Users/ben/Sites/thewriteroad/web/themes/twr/styles/uikit/components/partials/base/_base.scss
>>         on line 3 of styles/uikit/components/partials/base/_base.scss
>> >> @import
>>    ^
Warning:  Use --force to continue.

Aborted due to warnings.
Completed in 2.156s at Wed Nov 29 2017 17:03:38 GMT+0000 (GMT) - Waiting...
^C

what am I doing wrong? I dont think I need bower anymore cos it doesn't say so in the readme file in the uikit folder
I try installing bower anyway and that doesn't seem to help
I type

bower install

I get

bower ENOENT No bower.json present

I type

bower install bower.json

and nothing changes when I type grunt... same error. I'm thinking mabe I've messed up my theme folder now by installing bower.

Help much appreciated!