Birsay Beach

Big blankets of haar outside so we phoned our Birsay representatives.  It took a while for them to lift the receiver as they had to travel from their deck chairs.  Within seconds of replacing the receiver we travelled to Birsay for mid-morning coffee with said representatives.

Arriving in Stromness for my doctor’s appointment CMC cleaned for my Mum and then I went to the dentist.  Came home and taking full advantage of our second consecutive day without measureable precipitation I cut the grass.

Met a very sage farmer (of this parish) (originally from Stronsay parish) who bemoaned the 95% crash in biodiversity within his lifetime.  As a lifetime farmer he believes the cause is farming practices since the 1950s.  A sobering chat.

Earlier discussions of the janitor’s daschund were revisited; never knowingly understood.