Cupboards

These little niches are in the gable end of an old ruined cottage at the top of the village. There is no roof and it is slowly collapsing stone by stone. It has been sold to a couple who have built a holiday home just below it, to stop anyone else buying it and renovating it, thus spoiling there view! For the last couple of years we have watched it slowly sliding into a pile of stones, but there are still a couple of walls standing. These niches in the wall are very typical of old Orkney houses - as far back as Skara Brae Orcadians were building them into their walls.

Yesterday Himself was stopped on the road by a neighbour with a duck under her arm. One drake too many, she wanted him despatched. Being a man of many and varied skills, he did the deed and now we have a duck for Sunday dinner!

Had a morning of thorough house cleaning, hoovering, washing floors, the full works! Ollie sensibly retired outside to continue his bone chewing . . .