Life on (nearly) a Small Island

I usually go over to Stromness or Kirkwall about once a week. Sometimes more often in the summer and sometimes less in the winter when t...

Well actually on top of Brinkies Brae in Stromness!  It's somewhere I've wanted to go for years but not having good lungs didn...

A short wander along the shore after a day out in town again...... Old ruined building and farm machinery..... Looking across Gr...

Last Friday I was meeting up with Imperfect and Tense and family (well some of them!) for afternoon tea at Birsay Tea Room on the Orkne...

Yes it's that time of year when the clocks "Spring" forward an hour. Whoo Hooo! Sunrise at 06.56 and sunset at 19.39.   An...

Around the Spring Equinox (or Equilux as apparently it is sometimes now called! Sounds like a detergent) we get very high tides and very...