Septemeber has been great in Orkney. Lovely warm sunny days where you can still sit outside at times. It won’t be long I’m sure when we make the mad dash from the house to the car and endure wet and windy misery for seemingly and age, but for now, it’s been superb. I still take … More My Week in Pictures
In fact, I can honestly say that was the hardest one of the whole exercise to give up. It was a rough morning anyway as I was also force-fed a melt in the mouth home made meringue … More The Benefits of Drinking Water (and struggles)
I never tire of living by the sea, and I know I’ve mentioned this once or twice before but it’s true. I took the dog down to the beach before work one morning and the waves were quite wild and the tide high. As I stood watching the waves and listening to the sound of … More My Week in Pictures
This morning as I took the dog down to the beach for a run around before work, I witnessed a seagull and came away having learned something. It was a windy day and the waves were strong. The gull was sitting on the shore up near the rocks, possibly just exhausted from trying to fly in … More Facing your giants
A friend of mine Sara Bailey is a writer living in Orkney and due to publish her first book in October. I’ve had a sneak preview of the first chapter and am already in love with her style and keen to read the whole thing. She too good not to share around so I’ve put together an interview to hear how it all happened. … More An interview with author Sara Bailey
I came across this trailer for the Paralympics today. I thought it was absolutely incredible and after more and more terrible news, this time from France but not forgetting atrocities going on all over the world; this was positive, motivating, humbling and three minutes of brilliance. See for yourself. Shared from You Tube.
“with a good character, a sound mind….and an honourable ambition you will deserve success, and, by God’s grace, we trust you will attain it” Lovely! … More My week in Pictures
Then you realise weeks later you’ve suddenly gone a day without crying and you cry again.
… More Grief is the price we pay for love
This week I spent an almost three hour session in the Apple store. Brilliant staff helped set me up with some new products I had bought with a business grant I’d been awarded through Business Gateway. A few weeks ago I wrote a business plan and submitted it with my application and when I had the … More My Week in Pictures
If you’re a Facebook user you will have no doubt seen the clip below that went viral a few days ago. For those of you who missed it, it’s a woman who buys a Star Wars mask that makes a noise and she videos herself in hysterics using it. She oozes joy and laughs and laughs at something so … More How to be happy
Norq From Ork 