Bit sad

 Unfortunately, shelley is doing the same as 2 years ago. She's a good mum , but only to one. We will buy some equipment for next year. Little dude that remains us doing well though.

They are both currently indoors so she doesn't get distracted.

Most of this week all rooms have been full but no thanks to booking.com who are making mistakes which is a bit concerning. Still getting amazing guests though. We needed extra bread so Jill went to the shop and checked the patch on the way home. Lots of Northern Wheatears, some with young.

Some formation flying that the red arrows would be proud of.

Lots of flowers. Every pink blob is an orchid.

There were some other bits and bobs too.

There was a wheatear getting ready to be in the Jarl squad next year, with a good beard coming!

Today we went out for pizza for Robs birthday so we popped to town. It was really nice. There were some razorbills in the harbour.

Not a bad day.

Odd sort of day

  It started with the flooring deciding to shed it's joints and backing all at the same time in the guest kitchen/ breakfast room. It never liked being put back together after the heating went in.

So, we decided to head straight to town , one to get some glue to try and temporarily fix it and two to see what there was locally.

 Jill went to grab some glass jars to take to the bottle bank and was just about to  leave the byre when she heard peeping. Shelly has been sitting for 4 weeks and we thought Teddy was firing blanks...... We were wrong.

So Jill made a temporary run to keep the crows and ravens off. We have a third this evening but it's not as strong as the other two.

We did make it to town and have gone for a thick lino instead of laminate. Hopefully that will work ok 

Picked up some chick crumb too.

Summer Plummage in the sunshine

 Yesterday news broke of a local White billed diver at West Burrafirth. It was in just about full summer plummage. what a stunner. Unfortunately the light was poor, so, we were pleased it was still there today. It was quite mobile and a pleasure to watch 

There was some curiosity with other wildlife in the area.

Then we had some bits and bobs on the way home

And when we got home. Mr stinky was in the turning bay. Recognised the peerie knick in his ear.