Life on (nearly) a Small Island

We have been so lucky in Orkney, for the first time in many years we had a proper Autumn with the sun sinking lower and the says shorten...

Despite some stormy days this week we've also had some lovely sunny calm ones. Not bad for Autumn in Orkney.   Above taken on a str...

I was looking out of the window last weekend and thought I saw two Selkie folk emerging from the water....  Turns out they were some fo...

Well despite my various electronic calamities this week there have been some awesome meteorological goings on!  The Merry Dancers (auro...

Seemingly Google Blogger has changed some techno stuff and now I have lost ALL the links to the blogs I like to read.  I will have to star...

Space ship about to land on Sandside ;-) Beam me up Scotty! Below, looking across Hoy Sound to Stromness from Graemsay. A closer v...

Mario has written a lovely post about Graemsay that you might like to take a look at (and other posts on that site too of course!). http:...