Tall Ships Fever!

The Tall Ships are calling into Orkney on their way to Shetland at the end of this week. Some of the shops in Kirkwall have gone to town, decorating their windows with a nautical theme! This is my favourite, based on a nursery rhyme from my childhood.

A ship, a ship a-sailing,
A-sailing on the sea,
And it was deeply laden
With pretty things for me;
There were raisins in the cabin,
And almonds in the hold;
The sails were made of satin,
And the mast it was of gold.

The four-and-twenty sailors
That stood between the decks,
Were four-and-twenty white mice
With rings about their necks.
The captain was a duck, a duck,
With a jacket on his back,
And when this fairy ship set sail,
The captain he said, "Quack!"


This week is busy enough, I didn't really have the time or the inclination for a trip into town, but then yesterday evening I sat on my wooden sock knitting needles, and broke one of them! Unfortunately the only person I can get more from lives in one of the North Isles. As luck would have it, she had already booked to fly into town today, so we met for a coffee and a sock knitting chat and I bought yet more wool from her, and two more sets of needles!