Life on (nearly) a Small Island

  Amid the breezy, wet days have been some calm spells with blue skies. These are most welcome and a chance to get out for a wander around. ...

  I kind of lost my blogging mojo for a while there.  Partly as the weather has been so driech, with lots of grey skies, rain and some windy...

  There have been some magnificent skies this month.  Above.... it looks like Hoy High is sending out cloud rays instead of light rays! Anot...

  These photos were taken last week, but again we are in the teeth of a gale.  50mph winds at least, with hail and sleet battering the windo...

  I had a lovely encounter with a Common (harbour) seal (actually less common than the Grey seals that are usually around Sandside).  S/he f...

  This time it's a wander on the sandy beach, from whence Sandside Bay gets its name.  You have to be pretty fit to get onto the beach, ...