
“A fine day in December – the wind wasn’t howling, the rain wasn’t lashing, so we decided to go for it. We parked at the ferry terminal and headed round behind the concrete blocks .
A woman of independent mind.
“A fine day in December – the wind wasn’t howling, the rain wasn’t lashing, so we decided to go for it. We parked at the ferry terminal and headed round behind the concrete blocks .
“The improvements made through previous awards have been a great success, so it’s very encouraging that more organisations have seen the potential to make positive changes and brought forward some excellent proposals.”
The Balfour Occupational Therapists held a baking contest and invited our Morgan Harcus and Andy Swain to judge it which they duly did.
Local stars from The Reel Life Foundation in Kirkwall feature in a video, in part to say thank you to everyone who voted for them to receive a £5,000 grant from the Calor Rural Community Fund in order to fund a Music Instrument Bank.
Octopush is like a cross between ice hockey and water polo. The big difference is that all the action takes place 2 meters or in some cases 3 meters under water!
CHRISTMAS is certainly not a merry time for some of our feathered friends and one such bird escaped its customary fate if only for a few hours.
A selection of some of the images of Christmas sent in by Orkney News readers and reporters in 2018.
Christmas, the way it used to be/was not like it is today./The air was filled with magic./There was lots of time to play.
“British compassion for those who are suffering has been replaced by a punitive, mean-spirited, and often callous approach”
“I visited the Stromness Museum http://www.stromnessmuseum.co.uk/ to see the two new winter exhibitions, and started with ‘Great Expectations – curios from the cupboards’ – and that’s what they are!”