Life on (nearly) a Small Island

The last Bank Holiday weekend in May is the time for the Orkney Folk Festival  in Stromness. A local committee of volunteers work hard t...

Sadly this week the weather has been chilly, breezy and today very very wet.  Leaving aside what is good for the garden, I'm grumpy ...

Back home now I'm enjoying the late sunsets and going to bed when it is only just dusk. Sunset tonight is at 22.03. A room with a v...

Glen Coe I mentioned last week that I'd been away for a few days.  I was in Fort William in the Highlands with a friend, Anne, from...