Life on (nearly) a Small Island

It looks just like icing sugar on Ward hill.  Imagine the sugar rush from that! Looking brooding behind Hoy High lighth...

This week the wind has dropped after last weekend with hail, sleet, snow, gales, thunder and lightning!  But it has continued to rain.  ...

Bit bored with the wind now!  To be honest I haven't ventured far from the house. Fighting a cold, and cough, and wrapping myself in...

And another precious sunny day before the storms.  It was even quite mild, and again the hens enjoyed being out and about rather than hu...

And the day before Storm Ciara was a beautiful day with a chance for Button and I to get to the beach. Button is glad to be out an...

In Orkney we had Storm Ciara and now Storm Dennis. We tend to be amused when storms have names as they tend to be for when Mainland UK is...