Life on (nearly) a Small Island

Stevie Mowat, who has been the skipper on the Graemsay and Hoy route for many many years has retired this weekend. He has skippered the ...

One of the fun sides of blogging is you get to know all sorts of people from around the world and sometimes get to meet them too!  I'...

Note: The photos on this post were taken by Irene - she has a better camera than me! OK, they never really went away. But in April and...

Ah yes Spring is here....the sun now sets off the coast of Graemsay on the way to it's mid-summer holiday over on Black Craig on the...

I'm a bit behind on "blogging"! So this is about a visit to the island over a week ago by  Orkney Zero Waste , a  local co...

I love this time of year when the lambs are starting to appear in the fields. Particularly once they get to be a couple of weeks old as ...

I was planning on doing a bit of gardening yesterday as it was a lovely sunny day. Then the hail and SNOW showers came in!  Instead I dec...