The hard work of clearing the house continues. I look around me and wonder how we are ever going to achieve the task but then I see the spaces appearing and recollect that the furniture now mostly has sold spots marking it. Maybe we shall get there. Yesterday was a busy one with much of …
Tick, tick, tick
Emptying the house is proving to be both hard work and heart-wrenching. I have sold Morgana, my beloved spinning wheel. How I shall miss her. My poor head is spinning with how much work there is left to be done. Especially since Mr L told me that he would like to leave soon after the …
What a drip
Lightning woke me a little after three this morning and the storm continued for about an hour, on and off. This a rare thing here, where we normally suffer one or two strikes and then nothing. This time the lightning was distant. All power remained on and no sockets blew off the wall but I …
So much…
I'm starting a list of what is for selling at my next sale: (subject to update) Schacht Matchless DT Spinning Wheel, Lazy Kate, Bobbins, Transport Wheels Ashford E-spinner, Lazy Kate, Bobbins, Power Supply Ashford 32” 4-shaft table loom, stand and treadles, reeds, stick shuttles, warping loom, raddle Ashford fibre Blending Board Singer Electric Sewing Machine …
Well, things are suddenly become very real
What - twelve days since I last posted? I suppose my only excuse is that we have been tremendously busy. Poor Mr L is having ongoing fun with his rubbish bags (we had a second pack of 50 delivered) and the heap for the special refuse collection on 8th August is taking on gargantuan proportion. …
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Reasons not to leave Orkney, #927
I saw my GP last Thursday to enquire about a very minor elective surgery. He referred me to the Balfour Hospital in Kirkwall, saying it was something that he would normally do here on Sanday but the job is located in such a position that if anything went a tiny bit wrong, I might have …