Life on (nearly) a Small Island

....and I'm out enjoying it!!  Will be back soon and will answer comments etc....sorry - sun is calling! Photo above is of Stromness...

Not a phrase you hear in Orkney very often!! Yesterday top temperature was 20 degrees C/68F - which for Orkney is HOT!  Mid-summer temps...

Oops not sure where the last week has gone!  Busy tonight gardening for real and then armchair gardening watching the Chelsea Flower Sho...

....got blown into the garden during the gale and torrential rain overnight..... Flotsam above, and here is Jetsam - glad *someone...

I was in the garden yesterday, sitting on my bench, drinking tea and contemplating summer. Then the wind and rain arrived last night. Wh...

Much as I welcome the sun at any time, sunrise on a day off is something I would rather miss.... however some night's are like that....

I'm valiantly carrying on planting seeds in the veg patch, despite low temperatures. Showers of rain today but there is some warmth ...