Life on (nearly) a Small Island

Nope - nothing to do with sheep. But the Kirkwall Ba' 0r the Ba' as it is more simply known, has been played in the streets of the ...

Still looks like the "Frozen North" over on the Orkney Mainland! And today we have sleety showers again. There has been a bit of a...

Icy conditions are still with us. I was in Stromness on Tuesday and Wednesday and it was very slippery! There was 1.5 inches of snow on my...

No sunset photos - but here's a very seasonal photo of Stromness in the dusk as the lights are just coming on.

...... the snow isn't really settling so it's just ice and slush underfoot and not at all pretty.... but that probably doesn't q...

This is A Bad Thing as far as she is concerned - of course. But she has put on weight since she was last at the vets...... I had hoped that ...

Another fabulous sunset tonight. We are having some beautiful weather at the moment, clear skies, mild, NO WIND....! Long may it last. Th...