Life on (nearly) a Small Island

..and adorable! Well two of them think they are anyway.  Above is Button facing down the tide..... um..... I know.... she did retreat in t...

The weekend provided more "harbingers of Spring". The fields are beginning to green up again. The round silage bales in the foreg...

The year 2010 was named "Orkney Year o' Dialect" by the Orkney Heritage Society .  I discovered some poems on YouTube that wer...

The sun has slowly made it's way from setting deep behind the Hoy Hills to just settling into the tip of the Atlantic at the end of the...

As far as I'm concerned Spring is well and truly on her way! Above are the dwarf Narcissus in full flower among the trees that are full...

....with templates on this blog.......  just fancy a change!  Currently sticking with plain and simple.... but let me know if you think anyt...

Today we had our island First Responder refresher course (for more details on the actual course held last year take a look here ).  Last ye...