And yet more cakes.

Sunday 27th February 2011
Today Pam's offering is a mascaponi,creme fresh and raspberry sandwich cake. I shall end up dying of a surfeit of cake before Pam starts her new job at the end of March.

We got a bargain from the Orkney forum today.A complete food mixer with a multitude of attachments for doing god knows what. All for £5. A real bargain. Unfortunately when we got home it did not work but Hey Ho!

Monday was another lovely day. That must be about 5 beautiful days in a row. We will pay for it soon.
The baby tractor had an outing today as I shifted a load of big stones which the builders had left along with waste cement, concrete etc along the side of the drive. The stones are from when they knocked through from the house into the new extension. It's surprising how much stone came out just to make one doorway. The walls are 3 foot thick though.
Now all we need to do is make all the crushed grass and yellow plants look a bit more like part of a garden again.

Tuesday 1st March Well it's March now so spring is getting nearer and it feels like it.
I started making a little chicken ark so that the ones that we hatched can go out when they are off the heat lamps. It may not be the most beautiful chicken house in the world but it works. One or two wrong measurements led to last minute modifications but who cares, they are only chickens and they are not really known for their architectural taste. (PS the photo was taken on the 9th March when the weather was not so beautiful).

In the evening I took Molly to her obedience class. She was terrible. She managed everything OK except sitting or lying down for any length of time. After about thirty seconds she gets bored and gets up to have a sniff around. If she does that next week on her test she will fail. Then I will have to shoot her and get a more obedient dog.

The northern lights were visible over Orkney tonight and there were some good photos on the forum but all we got here was avery feint tinge of colour in the sky. I think the problem is that St Mary's is due north from us over the other side of the hill and the lights of the village cause a bit of a glow in the sky anyway.
We shall have to move somewhere darker.