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
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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