It’s Christmas Eve, my favourite time of the season. We’ve sung carols and are about to fall out over Cluedo. Wherever you are and however you spend your day, may you have hope in your heart on Christmas morning. Thank you to everyone for supporting the blog, it’s been great fun watching it grow. Norq … More Christmas greetings
whilst all other girls were angels and one even made the dizzy heights of Mary, Miss Lashes and another little girl were made to be shepherds and wear painted on beards and tea towels over the head. (pictured below) Blonde haired little girls floated around in white sheets with tinsel coat hanger halos, but Miss Lashes could only look on with a broken heart. … More A Nativity Story
The festive eating has begun and is showing little sign of letting up this week. I have an enforced starvation coming up due to a wee trip to hospital which might provide some damage limitation but it’s a tad drastic, but more about that later.
Sorry for the delay in My Week in Pictures this week, it’s usually my Sunday night regular but we were away in Edinburgh and on Sunday evening I was on a boat back home. Added to that I’ve been persuaded to try something a bit different this week and done a vlog (video blog) It’s a … More My Week in (moving) Pictures
Four years ago to the day we returned from having driven Miss Lashes to her new abode. She had left home and was postponing her gap year to go and volunteer with Soul Survivor church in Watford, with something called Soul 61. As much as I love Orkney, driving from here to London was an epic undertaking. … More Empty Nest Syndrome
As if I could ever forget…… Bonfire night is nearly upon us. For those readers not in the UK, it’s an opportunity to light a big fire and set off fireworks, to remember someone who tried to blow up the houses of parliament a long time ago. Weird huh? Anyway, on the whole I am enormously … More Remember Remember 5th November
23 years ago today I woke up at 2am in excruciating pain. My baby was 9 days overdue and about to make an entrance, (or is that exit?) and I can still remember waking up to that first contraction clearly. She was my first born and I had no idea what was about to happen … More Happy Birthday to Miss Lashes
Orkney Beef has a beautiful little granddaughter who we’ll call Peedie Meatball (well she is a miniature Orkney Beef!) She is engaging, ALWAYS smiling and we absolutely adore her. We had her for the day today and whilst I stupidly thought we may run out of things to do, as usual it was quite the opposite and she didn’t want … More How to Entertain a Four Year Old
We’ve had an incredible September/October here in Orkney but I think the weather is getting more traditionally seasonal now. We are managed to squeeze the last few drops of sunny skies out this week though, which made the Monday morning drive to work easier. This is the view heading down the road from my house. Having lived … More My Week in Pictures
I’ve heard it all now. I was listening to the radio this morning and a woman was on there speaking about being a ‘flexitarian’ She went on to explain her husband was a vegetarian and was encouraging her to do the same. However, she didn’t want to commit to a strictly no meat diet so basically, … More Flexitarianism, I Did It Before It Was Cool
Norq From Ork 