Saturday 13th November 2010
When I took Molly for a walk down to the beach this morning there was a seal quite close inshore near the village. It is the first time that I had seen one in Water sound. Duncan informs me that every now and then there is one there and that Jock jumps into the sea and swims off to try and catch it. He is a very nice dog but labradors are not the world's cleverest dogs.
Pam and I went to an exhibition on wind and tidal power in Kirkwall. I expected to just drop in for 15 minutes or so for a quick look round but we ended up staying for about one and a half hours. In addition to the renewable companies, the national grid, The crown estate, Marine Scotland, The Orkney Islands Council and others had stands explaining what they were doing.
It seems that whatever happens there is going to be a lot of money and development coming into Orkney in the next decade or two.
We had a nice lunch at The Strynd and came home to see Scotland had been trounced by the All Blacks and to watch England beat Australia. (I thought that I must remember to mention this to Duncan)
All was not bad for rugby in Orkney though. They won their match against Cumbernauld today and this puts them second in their division. This is not bad as they only went up to National division 3 this year and they have to play most of their away games with weakened teams as not everyone can always get time off to travel.
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