A bit quiet in here innit? A few reasons for that, the main one being is that I now have a seperate blog for the general Orkney life stuff - you can find it here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/islandblogging/blogs/005592/index.shtml
I wanted to try to keep this blog for much more of the diving side of my life, and since the flow is currently like Army Poridge (cold, gray and lumpy) there is very little of this going on. However, there is plenty of farmy type stuff going on, so have a mosey over to the BBC (i have to behave over there, no sweary words etc - bum) and check out what im up to.
The main diving thing at the moment is that i am going to London to pick up an award from BSAC (British Sub Aqua Club) for the rescue in June. London is further away than Iceland, so thats going to be one hell of a train journey!
Anyhoo, gale force snow at the moment, but there are 15togs of goose feather and four wooden walls between me and it so thats fine.
November 22nd, 2007
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Arriving back on the farm I went through the usual 24 hours of not feeling quite right. Suddenly all the things i needed i had left on the boat, plus it was almost like worrying about a child that had been left alone for the first time. Knowing we had doubled the ropes to the pier and that she was in an excellent berth did nothing to still the stress deep inside.
Finding a webcam in stromness whcih allows you to view the harbour helps a lot - it can be found here - http://www.visitorkney.com/webcams.asp and the Stromness one is the second image down. Sometimes it doesnt work, you just need to refresh the page until it does. If you cant work it out, you can just see the stern of the boat to the right of the picture. I’m very tempted to go and give the camera a little knock to the right, just so you can see the whole boat hehe.
The farm seems to be slowly dissolving to mud, the finest squishiest mud is all over the yard, piling up where cars regularly drive. Great for standing in when you have your wellies on, not so great if you have your trainers on…..
I would add some photos, but the deepstop seems to be having a small problem at the moment and i can only do it with code….and thats a lot of stress for some piccies…..
Hazel and Carolyn are due to go away to sell some sheep this week, but the weather is forecasting storm force 10 although it is gusting at 75 (which is hurricane force if you didnt know) so they might not get off island. Bugger.
November 6th, 2007
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