Equinox joy
Posted: Thursday, 22 March 2007 |
Hooray - past the equinox, days get longer! When the clocks go forward on Sun morning we will get more daylight than anyone else in Britain, with the notable exception of our pals in Shetland (hello folks! Whit like?).
Beautiful day today, joy all round at sunshine and lovely light! Met a group of Slovakian journalists enjoying Orkney, still reeling from their Stromness B&B breakfast! They're here for a couple of days and they are travelling throughout Scotland so look out for 'em!
The man o the hoose is off to the cricket club AGM tonight at the Merkister, so a few hours unfettered hours on the mothership are mine. Going to list some stuff on a well-known internet auction site (henceforth known as AWKIAS). I am thinking that if thay ever discover a new Orkney island they should call it Ebay (pronouced 'Eebee').
Thought you might like a pic or two, taken on a Sunday day a week or two back...
Beautiful day today, joy all round at sunshine and lovely light! Met a group of Slovakian journalists enjoying Orkney, still reeling from their Stromness B&B breakfast! They're here for a couple of days and they are travelling throughout Scotland so look out for 'em!
The man o the hoose is off to the cricket club AGM tonight at the Merkister, so a few hours unfettered hours on the mothership are mine. Going to list some stuff on a well-known internet auction site (henceforth known as AWKIAS). I am thinking that if thay ever discover a new Orkney island they should call it Ebay (pronouced 'Eebee').
Thought you might like a pic or two, taken on a Sunday day a week or two back...
Comments
Great pics, and hope you can get some of the northern lights too. Is the Stromness street the same one as in the old photo in your earlier blog? ps I wish I lived in that house in the 2nd photo!
Jill from EK
seems like a good ides
harry from dundee
looks like a beautfil place compared to here
j from slough
All this daylight - but my weekend is only 47 hours long! I feel robbed.
Muness from Fetlar
It alright to ooh and aaah over Dundas (that's the street name for the Stromness Champs Elysees, right?), but have your tried to drive your Humvee on it while giving the pedestrians and bicycle the right of way? Have you?!!
mjc from NM,USA
Aye, the lack of corners on the houses testifies to the camper van drivers trying to get through the town to the campsite (and due in part to certain young men after a few shandies, too). The narrowness of the street is certainly part of the charm - but we do get the boy racers zooming past the house, endangering the felines. Some folks think it should be one way - I say NO! It would become a racing circuit! As it is, there is always a chance they will meet something coming the other way and have to drive more slowly. I curse them regularly. However, it's still a v cool place to live. If these blogs had smell-o-vision you would detect salt, lum reek and seaweed. The sea is only yards away!
Stromness Dragon from Shouting at the traffic
If the signage was clearer, people in campervans woudn't go through the street but up Back Road instead.
Flying Cat from The Sunroom of Eternity
Life in Stromness, writing stuff, staring out of the window, history, growing veg at the allotment.
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