Mint Sauce?

Walked down to the Post Office in Kettletoft today as the “new” car is making very nasty noises and requires urgent medical attention. I took my little Nikon with me and had some fun in the sun. It was hard to pick which image to post today – really nice to be spoiled for choice …

It’s a con

Something we see very little of here – a con trail in the sky. It appeared whilst I was eating my tea and hung around long enough for me to grab a shot after. Despite a dodgy damp start to the day, it has been a stunning afternoon and the weather looks set to stay …

In the Country

More “On the Country” really. I’ve been trying to teach myself how to core spin, and also trying out the Country Spinner. A steep learning curve and I believe I coulld do with a better teacher 🙂 One thing I have learned – it’s fast. I consumed a great deal of fibre in no time …

Scuthvie

We took our “new” car out to test its legs on a run up to the North end of the island this afternoon. Scuthvie was less of a pleasure than usual as the beach is now largely boulder and pebble instead of the expanse of sand that used to be there. The western end remains …

Backblip

Taken on the ferry to Kirkwall

Puzzled

We went to town today to see if we could sort out the order for our new doors and windows. We made but incremental progress. We also failed to enquire about a car we are considering buying as they were closed for the holiday. MUMS puzzle hunt began today. Two puzzles were solved before we …

Opened

The ribbon was cut at our new Heritage Centre today.

De-lightfielded

Received an unexpected present today. Lucky me

A great start

It’s a glorious day today, sunny and still. The end of the working day coincided with the retreating tide so we donned our wellies, whistled up the dogs and elected to make an early start on our holiday. At least one of us had fun

Four in the hole

Lunch. Smoky Bacon bangers from Donaldson’s in a toad-in-the-hole. Jersey Royals and tenderstem Broccoli. Yummy