Bad weather, big dogs and more bad weather.

Wednesday 9th March 2011
We woke this morning to a light covering of hailstones. As is to be expected, it soon got worse. Gales and sleet, so I decided to do nothing.
One has to be able to make decisions based on the facts and the fact was that it was not fit for anything.
Normaly the weather in Orkney changes rapidly but just for a change this foul weather continued through thursday anmd friday so again the executive decision was made to stay in and do nothing.

On Saturday the weather improved. To be honest there was little else that it could do.
I noticed that there was a pub quiz at the Sands in aid of the Burray community association. We invited Dave and Claire to come round for tea then come to the quiz with us. I then realised that the quiz was next saturday and not tonight.(That's the first question wrong then.) Dave and Claire came round anyway and we went to the Sands without any danger of showing everybody how ill informed we were by doing a quiz.

At about 10 o-clock most of the young folk in the pub left to catch the bus to Kirkwall for the exotic night life. That just left us and one other group of people in the bar. The others were regulars and one of them works at the Sands as a barman. Evelyn, the landlady, then let Amy, her younger Akita out into the pub. Amy goes to the same obedience class as Molly, so I think that Evelyn was using us as a test to see if Amy would behave and not eat any of the customers. She is a VERY large and powerful dog and a few weeks ago I would not have trusted her. As it was, she was very good and was licking my nose rather than ripping my throat out. She did have a little growl at somebody from the other table who moved a bit quickly but I think that Evelyn was happy that her test worked.