Bonny sunrise
Posted: Sunday, 01 April 2007 |
Here's the view from our bedroom window on 28 March. 
Comments
Do you live on a boat? Are you related to my mother-in-law ( she is a dragon also ) ? Did I put the question mark in the correct place? No more questions ( for the time being)
Tws from The Croft Lewis
Tws, I am the world's worst sailor and get sick on the ferry to Shapinsay. I was once on Lewis for the day and got awfy poorly on the way back. No, our hoose looks out over the water, and the sea comes right up to our garden. Don't think I'm related to the Dragon lady - I can claim Orcadian ancestry from 16-oatcake but nothing more recent. Regarding the q mark - fine location but no need for space after brackets. Obsessive about punctuation? Moi?
Stromness Dragon from Feetfirmlyonsolidground
Time to visit Stromness, TWS. Great place to live, if you can find a place to park your Humvee on Dundas Boulevard while you get your Orkney ice cream cone. Good ice cream (get a minimum of two scoops), and the chippy nearby is reputedly the best north of Hadrian's wall. Of course, there'll be the danger of being breathed upon by the fire belching Dragon or swatted by a Flying Cat, etc.: but nothing ventured ...
mjc from NM,USA
Stromness Dragon, if I won the lottery I would offer you several million for your house beside the water. Then, since I would be a wealthy lady of leisure, I could sit and look at the view and watch the boats. What heaven!
Jill from EK
oh you lucky sole i'd die for views like that
carol from feelingjealous
that pic should be snapped up by IBHQ as an advert for IB - ? TWS (?) any comment?
scallowawife from looking north towards the sea,....
glad to see your alive ,scallowawife, welcome back
carol from france
Mjc - at the risk of causing a riot I'd say that the Pierowall hotel in Westray serves the finest fish suppers in the known world. Stromness chipper is no' half bad though and I don't have to get on a ferry to go there.
Stromness Dragon from andapickledegg
Stromness chippy is much improved since it's latest change of ownership (and brand new friers- rumoured to have cost 拢35,000!) and now uses oil instead of artery-clogging dripping, so I fear the van is going to lose out from the Anorak Towers contingent. The squid and chips at the Pierowall is beyond my descriptive powers, but I'm with SD on the not-having-to-go-on-a-ferry bit...BLEH!
Flying Cat from spitting mushy peas
Brand new fryers perhaps....
Flying Cat from righting-a-wrong
Scallowawife, although it is a pleasure to have you back on-line, I will not answer your question ( mostly because I don't know if it is a real question, or if it is a trap, I know that you and F**ing C*t are in cahoots ) I do hope they hurry up here.
Tws from sittinginthequeuefortheloo
Good pottery (and potters? not potterers?) in Westray. Now the best chippy in the world at the Pierowall hotel, with the Stromness chippy a close second. The best used to be at a three street corner in Durham, England, where the best chips were served on the previous week's Guardian with a whopping piece of wonderful fried Outer Banks cod for the price of 2sh.6d.
mjc from NM,USA
Just googled the Pierowall hotel. They have a mouthwatering picture of fish and chips on the dining table. I nearly fainted. Should I have the squid and chips first, then the fish and chips? or do they serve a combo plate? How's the accompanying vinegar or/and mayo?
mjc from NM,USA
is it fry and fryer - dry and dryer - fly and flyer? I think a tumble drier is spelled -ier but should be -yer. who knows. is the person who frys (fries) known as the fryer - but the item is a frier? the English language is impossible. TWS any comment?
scallowawife from in a dictionary
In the States, it's tumble dryer. In fact, you can not only buy books but also tumble dryers at Amazon.com!!
mjc from NM,USA
No comment.
Tws from The Dark Side
I agree, those fish and were chips really were good but they would never be served in such a conservative newspaper as the Guardian it was more likely to be the Durham County Advertiser or the Sunderland Echo, both good socialist newspapers, G,T.
G,T from washington tyne& wear
Life in Stromness, writing stuff, staring out of the window, history, growing veg at the allotment.
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