June 2026

Welcome everyone, hope you are keeping cool. The heat wave hasn't reached Orkney yet and not looking as though it will ! A blessing perhaps.

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Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit.

"Oh let it be

A blessed day for me,

Oh yes say we"

Upon the first day of July, I greet you and I wish you well.

Little words by Athey Thompson

Art by Alison Barry

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Even though the daylight hours are even longer at this time of year, I'm not sure where the time goes, it could just possibly be that I'm spending a lot of time with our new friend Molly the collie !

 

Molly is doing great, a lot of fun .

" sheep ? what sheep ? I see no sheep" 😂

Our old girl Zara still thinks it's a great idea to roll in the mud after the rain.

Mr Blonde on the other hand thinks he looks rather fine in the evening sun

At this time of year the night sky doesn't get dark, you just don't realise what time it is.

It always amazes me how even in the most unlikely places nature still finds a way to blossom.

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Wishing you happy July days

from Malcolm & June

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May 2026

 Hello everyone, welcome to a selection of our photos for May.

Some of this season's lambs are already being introduced to living on the shore and their diet of seaweed

The greenhouse is providing a plentiful supply of my favourite raspberries for breakfast

Eight small cruise ships, each with around 120 passengers and the crew, are booked to visit the island this season, weather permitting.

The passengers are ferried from the ships moored about two miles out at sea via Zodiac ribs and are helped to come ashore on Bewan Pier, not for the faint-hearted !

The passengers are then grouped depending on what interests them, the birds and wildlife, lighthouse tours or the wool mill.

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We don't very often leave the island but this month has been an exception!

With a 70th birthday party in Harrow combined with meeting up with longtime-no-see friends and my big bruvver it has been a wonderfully exciting and social month.

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Love you Rosie 💖

Love you Bruvver  💕

Love you Elaine and Colin 💜💙

Love you Maria and Sergio 💛💙

On our travels we got to spend a morning in sunny Aberdeen

a city filled with some wonderful murals

to brighten up some not so bright streets

and alfresco dining, a rare thing in Orkney !

serving vase-sized smoothies !

and a fairground, shame it wasn't open at the time, do love a fairground !!

      Lots of travel on trains (King's Cross Station)

                                                 ferries

and wonderful impromptu folk music from talented young musicians from Edinburgh

Always lovely to spot North Ronaldsay Lighthouse from the plane though after some time away

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Books of the month

oooh ! three lovely books this month

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Miss Molly the collie

 is now officially part of our family 😊

Molly's purpose in life is

 to love 💖 and to be loved 💖,

her instinct to herd sheep is non-existent and she finds rabbits a bit boring,

she keeps her distance from Zara and Mr Blond,

Tilly cat is something to stare at and

her aim in life is to be a couch potato !

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To our friends who have birthdays this month,

June (TY), Kelly M, Gill V, Charlotte and Mr Blonde we send you birthday wishes

and 

wish you all a warm, sun-shining month of June 

with love from June and Malcolm

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April 2026

 

Hello everyone, welcome to our island life in April. It's always good to spend time with a relaxed pony who takes chilling out very seriously.

Resting in the long awaited warmth of sunshine

Our greenhouse is beginning to bloom again

peaches are forming

bunches of grapes are forming

raspberries are forming

seedlings are doing well

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Poem of the month

She carries with her

A garden full of flowers

And everywhere she does go

A seed there, she shall sow.

Little words by Athey Thompson

Facebook page : Tales of the old forest faeries

Art by Kristin Ventgard

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On clear days we can see Fair Isle twenty eight miles away

Skies over North Ronaldsay

North Ronaldsay lambs are appearing all over the island

We have a new little friend staying with us at the moment who may well become a member of our family

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Quote of the month

Facebook page : Dr Wayne W Dyer

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 Beltane, is a traditional Celtic fire festival celebrated on May 1st that marks the beginning of summer. It is one of four major Gaelic seasonal festivals celebrating light, growth, and the thriving natural world with fires and dancing.

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So wishing you a happy Beltane with love from

June and Malcolm

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