‘What could we achieve if we were 10% braver?’ we were asked. I don’t know, but I’m going to find out as I aim to be a light in the darkness … More My Week In Pictures-Beast Fae The East
There are definite signs of change in Orkney this week as spring is really beginning to show herself. A farmer friend I once knew told me he spent his life ‘looking over hedges’ ie comparing his own work with how other farmers are doing. Are they ahead or behind schedule? was he keeping up? I think … More My Week In Pictures – Keeping Going
It’s all becoming a bit more bearable. I promised you last week that I would stop whinging and finally I found reason to. I can now officially say that I leave the house in daylight and return home in daylight. This hasn’t happened in months and I am safe in the knowledge that it will continue right the … More My Week In Pictures – Sunrise, Sunset And Almost Sunshine
If it hadn’t been all levels of weird I would have kissed the person next to me. … More My Week In Pictures – Looking For The Light.
My week started with ripping off the next page of my desk calendar, with its wisdom perhaps pointing to what kind of week I was going to have.
Hold the front page! Orkney has a week of winter weather in Winter. It’s to be expected right? Winter heralding snow, but we still act surprised, annoyed and in some cases a tad dramatic about it when it comes. There’s nothing we can do about the weather except get on with it, but it doesn’t … More My Week In Pictures – A Winter’s Tale
‘We’ll remember this holiday forever won’t we?’ said Orkney Beef. Yes, we will.
Those of you who follow my Norq From Ork Facebook page will know I’ve been whinging incessantly for days that I’ve been laid low with a virus this week. A strange thing which made me so dizzy I couldn’t walk to the bathroom without holding on to the wall. Swimming was ditched and I spent the whole of … More My Week In Pictures
Keeping upright has been this weeks challenge. A major storm mid-week posed a major challenge for Orkney folk as we all strapped down our trampolines, shed roofs, dogs etc. Schools had to close, roads were flooded and a high sided lorry blew over in the relentless wind. Driving in it is no fun at all … More My Week In Pictures
A few weeks into it I asked Orkney Beef if he thought I’d lost weight. He looked terrified as if he was about to tread on a landmine and blow himself to pieces. … More My Week In Pictures
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