The best Animal from Vegetables
The best ‘Section 10 – Animal from Vegetables’ entries at the Westray Industrial Show 2013. Classic :) I just love the giraffe …
Westray and Papa Westray – the Movie
I never tire of hearing the narrator’s voice on this wonderful video
The other man’s cabbage is always greener
An entry to the 78th Annual Westray Industrial Show in the Community Hall.
Rubbish
You do have to ask: why issue bins with wheels and flapping lids on an island where everything that isn’t tied, nailed …
Band rehearsal night in the Hall
It’s band practise night in the Hall as Ippykak come to visit.
Fish and chips and owls
We’re driving in the Land Rover to the village when the Short Eared Owl appears over the fields with its white wing …
Misty Noup
It’s a grey afternoon as I set out to cycle to Noup Head. I can’t tell you how many miles it is …
Noltland Mist
Noltland Castle is magnificent in the mist. The barrel vaulted kitchen is spectacularly rugged with amazing acoustics. I climb to the top …
Beetroot and Chocolate Cake
Just how many beetroot products do the three shops in Westray stock? There’s Baxters’ Beetroot in Redcurrent Jelly (Delicious with hot and …
That reminds me…
…of when our trampoline blew away. The full gory story: The answer my friend
I scream
It’s 14 degrees this afternoon. The Met Office say that it will feel like 11 degrees. I scream anyone?
Tatties for sale
I love some of the hand-made signs around the Island. I really must capture the duck egg box in one of my …
Note to self – if Westray folk say “I don’t mind” they’re not saying “I don’t care,” they’re saying “I don’t remember.” It’s the verb ‘to mind’ as in ‘to bring to mind’ or ‘to remember’. As in: “I can’t mind it at the moment”; and “Do you mind when it was?” It’s confuserous.
T-shirts in the shop
And who could disagree? No me.
New camera, new panorama
It’s always upsetting when you break something. When you like cameras and you break a lens it also very upsetting to your …
Meg
Meg. My new friend.
Coypuffin
My Coypuffin :) I really wish I could remember where I bought this and who made it. Did I get it at …
Walking Meg
I’ve been suspicious of dogs ever since a Great Dane licked my face and crushed my testicles by standing on me as …
Minion
Thank you Lily for the Minion :)
Lubricate well
Lubricate this breaker well Tightened bolts prevent all rapping And be sure all parts are clean That’s the way to keep it …
Postbox eyebrows
The hooded postbox. The rain in Westray is generally horizontal rather than vertical, apart from at the end; just before it hits …
Remote
A postbox at the north end of the Island. Remote, I’d call it.
Warm noses
Lady is beautiful and eats delicately from my hand. Her nose is warm. Krummie wants to bite me and farts extravagantly for …
Puppy Love
Meeting Meg for the first time <3 xxx
Back to the future
Very little has been touched in my house since the 1970s. The bathroom still has the original, now faded, bright orange, hand-made, …
Land Rover
Friend. Land Rover. Sunshine. Beach. Walk.
Dark Island Reserve
Today I go in search of Dark Island Reserve. A beer that even red wine drinkers find palatable – or so I …
Breakfast on the Ferry
A cup of tea. A bacon roll. A Tunnock’s Caramel Wafer. On the Orkney Ferry to Westray. £2.80. Breakfast.
Waiting in the Westray queue
Westray.
The Dark Island is so very close
So very close and so very far away. It’s 8:40am and it’s not legal to buy alcohol before 10:00am here. My ferry …