We’re up at dawn to see the Tammie Norries (Puffins), a short walk from our house, at the Castle o’ Burrian on Westray.
Apr 122009
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Footprints of gulls pattern the sand.
Apr 112009
A Fulmar glides past like a flying boat over the Knowe o’ Skea on Westray.
Looking out across the Knowe o’ Skea where an important Iron Age burial site gives tantalising clues about the culture of our ancestors.
Flat periwinkle (Littorina obtusata) on the beach in the Bay of Swartmill.
Sunset in the garden at Einar silhouettes the hair of the cattle rubbed onto the barbed wire in the fields.
Apr 082009
Panic sets in. When you’re on an island which only got mains electricity in 1980 (or so I’m told), with no cooker, no fridge and no washing machine, with no gas supply and just an electric slow cooker for all your meals, having the electricity cut out is a serious worry. I check the fusebox. [...]
Einar has a new roof on the old school building. Now there’s no more need for builder’s buckets to catch the rain.
Einar is under construction – just like my new life.
Apr 072009
The sun sets as a storm brews over Grobust.
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