2nd December – Feeling a bit fed up today. Went in to work and my colleague, Norna, showed me photos of her family’s new yacht, Time Out. It looks very nice. On Saturday, they took it out for a sail in Scapa Flow and Hoy Sound and had an encounter with a pod of Orca.
These photos were taken, from the shore, by Graham Campbell and posted on the Orkney Cetaceans web site.
Those that have visited us will recognise the little lighthouse and know how close this is to our house, hence my being fed up! I was working on Saturday but H and I normally walk along here every day. You just have to be in the right place at the right time!
15th December – All hail the Sun god for granting us a few minutes of daylight! It’ll soon be the shortest day.
We had a chilly walk around the shore today but a few appearances from the sun made it bright (and bracing). Still no Orcas though!
17th December – Our first frosty morning of the winter. Looking across the golf course to the hills on Hoy.
24th December 2019 – Happy Christmas everybody!
25th December – What better way to celebrate Christmas than the traditional dip in the harbour.
By the way, if anybody is interested, over in Kirkwall, the Uppies won the first Boy’s Ba’ of the season.
And the Doonies won the Men’s Ba’. A titanic struggle this year that lasted over six hours and finished, in the dark, with the victors crashing into the harbour.
No fatalities or mutilations have been reported. It can only be a matter of time!
31st December – Hogmanay and the annual Stromness Yule Log Pull.
It’s the first time that the junior Northenders have won the event, so well done them. A surplus of big, hairy blokes at this end of town assured victory for the Soothenders.
Happy New Year!
Scapa Views 
looks like they had a whale of a time……
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Haha….sadly me and H didn’t! Desperate to see some whales passing by.
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