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First of all I must mention the Stronsay Regatta and Gala Day which will be opened at 1 pm on Saturday 23 June 2007 by our MP, Alistair Carmichael. The events will include a procession of floats, a pet show (we've decided not to enter Surrey, too traumatic for her), a fire fighting demonstration, a trampoline, a Stronsay craft tent, face painting, raffles and, of course, a beer tent. If you're in Orkney and want to come there's a boat on Saturday morning from Kirkwall to Stronsay calling at Eday and Sanday and a return boat on Saturday evening. However, if you want to stay on and you still have some energy left then there's a dance in the Stronsay Community Centre at 9 pm when Don Peace from Sampson's Lane will be providing the music with some help from his musical friends.

Our neighbour Bob Tateson still resolutely refuses to purchase a lawn mower so this year he borrowed two ponies for a couple of weeks in order to crop the grass down to a reasonable length. Our white cat, Surrey, sat on the kitchen window sill keeping a very careful eye on the new "neighbours", a duty that she seemed to share with Bob's own cat, Socks. Feline fans should have a look at . We are quite determined that Surrey is NOT going to have her very own webcam.

Bob Tateson is the chairman of the Stronsay Footprints, a group founded only a few weeks ago. It consists of local people who are interested in the history and the geography of Stronsay and Papa Stronsay. The group is open to all ages and aims to discover more about Stronsay's history, its geography and its genealogy.

Readers who follow the events at Golgotha Monastery will be interested to hear that the monks on Papa Stronsay have begun their very own blog at

Sadly Sanday's evening class on singing has ceased because there is no funding for Michael Lee, the tutor, to travel to and from the island. However, Stronsay is more fortunate and the new session of evening classes in singing has begun despite the funding shortage. Stronsay Community Council is funding Michael's travel to/from Stronsay and we're providing Michael with bed & board at Claremont. Maureen has found that cooking vegeterian food for Michael is a challenge but a challenge that she is finding very interesting; we have discovered that vegetarian food does not necessarily mean a nut cutlet and some rice.

In my last Saga I mentioned Isaac Erdman's "Sail sale" on 31 May. We went along to this all-day event and found the Erdman's living room absolutely packed with goodies for sale. The event was a success in that it raised over 350 pounds which, when added to miscellaneous donations etc, means that Isaac has now raised the 500 pounds he needs for his Ocean Youth Trust trip around Ireland in July.