I'm acutely aware that this poor blog has been neglected over the past few weeks. It has been a bit of a crazy few weeks with lots happening here. But tomorrow I set off to Australia for a few weeks to visit family and have a bit of a holiday.It will be a trip tinged with memories of my sister […]
Sense of Place
Monday, September 30 2013
Overwhelming
Monday, September 30 2013. Sense of Place
Overwhelming is the best word I can think of to describe the Italian Chapel on the island of Lambholm, Orkney.This Chapel is located alongside the Churchill Barrier which links Mainland to Lambholm and viewed from the outside looks nothing like your traditional Chapel:From this angle only the bell […]
Sunday, September 29 2013
Highland Park
Sunday, September 29 2013. Sense of Place
If you go to Orkney, one of the "must do's" is the tour of one of the two distilleries on the Mainland. There is Scapa Distillery which you can't miss if you walk along Scapa Beach as it sits at one end of the beach, but which is not open to the public for tours: and Highland Park […]
Tuesday, September 24 2013
New Friends
Tuesday, September 24 2013. Sense of Place
We are staying in a delightful cottage called The Slap. Once the weather brightens I'll try and get some photographs of this beautifully renovated cottage.However, we have new neighbours for the week, and we're slowly getting to make friends with them: My favourites have to be the pygmy goats:I […]
