What have I been doing for the past nine days, you may well ask. Last Wednesday we took off after work and loaded Brunhilde on to the evening ferry for Kirkwall. It was a fairly late sailing, going via Stronsay, meaning that had we been on time we would land at 8 pm. We were …
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Where’s my knitting?
Where’s my knitting? I haven’t seen it for ages. I really feel in need of a few hours of quiet needle work. Yesterday’s sossidge sarnie was fabulous, the best I have had in years. It was Pork, Pear and Black Pudding sossidge, from Donaldson’s of course, and I split the links in half to fry …
A Puzzle and a Struggle
Managed to catch Ted asleep in his new bed yesterday. The signs are good that he may choose to sleep in it when he goes travelling. The awaited exhaust mounts came in today’s post at last. Hearts sank when we saw the state of the packaging, which had been resealed in Orkney. However, despite being …
Pussy cat, pussy cat
Where have you been? Why, to Inganess and Deerness, of course. Longish post with pics telling what we all got up to last weekend.
Slowly, slowly
The weather picked up a little on Wednesday and was a far drier day. I did something about the huge pile of laundry that had come home with us on Monday and I cleared some things out of the van, taking Teddy in with me to begin his process of familiarisation. He had a thorough …
Hobble-de-Hoy
We are returned from Hoy and so very glad that we went. Full details and lots of photos (I came home with 410 frames) will appear on Two Snails when I have found time to do the necessary. In the meantime, a brief précis here: Friday We left on the Friday lunch-time boat. Having decided …