Where are all the seal pups

Thursday 14th October 2010
Pam was feeling a bit better today and was getting bored at home so we went out to Windwick on South Ronaldsay to see if there were any seal pups as it is pupping season for the grey seals.
There were no pups yet at Windwick although I could hear a seal calling but we couldn't go far as Pam is not up to walking far yet.

Maybe we just looked in the wrong place as the Autumn Watch team from BBC television are up here at the moment to film the seal pups but they have gone to Stronsay.

At least Pam had a nice trip out so it will stop her going "stir crazy".

On Friday Pam went down to see the surgery practice nurse to get her stitches out. I didn't realise that many of them were staples. I thought that they looked like a zip and wondered if it was some NHS scheme to make any future operations easier.

She has just told me that it was 35 staples and 12 stitches over 5 incisions so she looks like a noughts and crosses board.

This photo from this morning just proves that it does sunshine in Orkney in October. There are at least 3 places where the sun is shining.

When we got back from the surgery the builders had begun to knock through the end of the house to create a doorway into the extension. Looking at the wall when they knocked through it is fairly obvious that the house was built by a fisherman and not by a builder or mason. It is plainly OK because it has stood for 100 years but he probably got it right by luck more than judgement. Almost all the houses here are single storey, maybe they tried 2 storey houses and decided that as they all fell down it was better to stick to single storey houses.

As Pam says that I have not put any photos of the progress of the extension up for a while, here are two.
One looking from the house through into the extension and









one looking from the new bedroom to the new lounge.