Bleak and dreich!

What a day.  Sleety showers and the wind picking up by the hour.  Ollie and I had to go into Kirkwall to pick up some more pills for him, and the weather was awful.  Each gateway I drove past, the car was buffeted by the wind and the sleet was building up on the verges.

Nipped into Lidl and bought yet another, greatly reduced, Christmas panettone, then quickly got home over the barriers before they got any worse.  Poor J and Scratch are stuck in Inverness overnight as the ferries are cancelled, and likely will be tomorrow too, due to the gales.  
Not the weather for travelling.

This is the village at low tide.  At high tide the waves were washing over on to the road, bringing stones and bits of seaweed with it!  Extra is a heron, between the showers.