Life on (nearly) a Small Island

....the living is easy" to quote one of my favourite Gershwin songs. However it's probably only true for cats and chickens....sig...

The gales of the weekend have retreated and Orkney is drying out after 2 inches of rain fell over the weekend. Nothing in comparison with t...

(I've amended my original blog post after receiving some corrections (I blame the wine I drank!) and some additional information from Ga...

What a change in the weather from Friday!  Overnight there was about 10mm of rain, and wind gusting to approx 40mph.  It's still very b...

Well my readers do seem to like sunsets so I'm possibly going for overkill with this....sigh. But I'm just catching my breath as th...

Above is the sunset last night - a beautiful still evening, and the lighthouse, next door, with an orange glow and a rainbow! But in ...

This was the view from my "back door" the other night, a beautiful soft reflective light. I love evenings like this!  We've ...