Life on (nearly) a Small Island

Firstly I want to say Hallo to children at Michelsberg Grammar School in Geislingen. One of the classes wrote to me because in their English...

Our wee boat which has been away for "lengthening" (I'm not allowed to call it a "cut & shut" job!) has just ret...

So we've had a rapid thaw, just some ice and snow clinging to the Hoy and Orphir hills. But now we have gales, with severe gales foreca...

Both Button and I felt like some fresh air today, so went for a short walk to the beach below the house. However there was still a lot of i...

OK the photo above probably doesn't look much different to the photo in my previous post. But if you click on the photo to enlarge it y...

Sorry for the lack of posts - I've not been around for a few days. I was unwell just before New Year and as we didn't have a ferry ...

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 ...