Evangeline draws an Angel in the sand
Allowing ponies into our field has finally had the much anticipated and appreciated effect. The mushrooms have come. What would we do without them? Since we animals can’t digest what’s left, thank goodness there are mushrooms to do it otherwise the world would be full of…
Westray cattle are a breed apart. I’m used to seeing docile unthinking beasts in Devon. Barely alive, seemingly semi-conscious, the Devon grass grazers are unaware of anything save a single ancestral flick of the eyes to register whether danger approaches. Westray beef steers, however, have a different life. Curious beyond normal measure, they race to [...]
Spectacular days and spectacular nights, with a breathtaking sunset inbetween. The days have taken on a eerie stillness and the seemingly everpresent wind drops in a strange lull. Wading birds call to one another as the light fades to crimson standing in the Bay of Tafts.
Aug 192008
The family on a glorious day.
Aug 192008
It’s August and the cliffs around the north of Westray in Orkney are covered with the dried husks of Sea Pinks. Seals snort curious noses and Gannets plunge headlong into the sea, whilst we keep a watchful eye out for a pod of Killer Whales.
An intriguing visit to the Orkney Faerie Museum and Gallery this morning, with the wonderful, warm and welcoming Alicen and Neil. A visual feast and storytelling marvel, it’s more than a curiosity and well worth the visit.
Aug 122008
Archaeologist Sean Rice holds a piece of neolithic grooved ware on the Links of Noltland.
Aug 122008
Wandering along the beach at Grobust on Westray in Orkney I spot a group of people with wheelbarrows kneeling in the sand dunes. It can only be the archaeologists. Neolithic grooved-ware pottery, worked bone objects, stone tools and flint abound, with a series of interconnecting buildings revealed in the unstable dunes.
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