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Bonny Day
What a bonny day in Westray today. I think we've lived here long enough to use bonny 
Had a little drive round the island, visited all the the shops (all three of them) got various bits and bobs and decided to have a barbeque.
Relaxed in the garden room and watched a couple of ships sail over the horizon. fed our faces, drank some wine and generally had a very relaxing and pleasant afternoon.
Super.
Disappointing News
To set the scene I need to explain how larger items get to Westray.
Couriered items get delivered to a warehouse in Kirkwall and a local (Westray) haulier picks them up from there and brings them over to Westray. He will then bring them out to the final address. This last leg can sometimes get delayed as he can only be in one place at once. It is not unusual therefore for people to go down to the warehouse and collect their own items.
Similarly, and for me this is where the system really comes into its own. If one wants an item from a shop on Orkney mainland, say in Kirkwall, virtually all of them are quite happy to take payment by credit/debit card (or account) and drop the item/s round to the main warehouse, where again it is picked up by the local haulier (who will of course now charge for this collection).
Super duper. One rings the Kirkwall shop, orders the items and they just arrive in our local warehouse where thay can be collected.
Crime is very low in Orkney and just about non existent on Westray so the warehouse just sits open all day and people help themselves to what is theirs.
The first Christmas that we were here we were just amazed at this Santas Grotto full of goodies for Christmas (booze, toys, computers etc) and everyone just taking what was theirs.
Wouldn't have worked for five seconds where we used to live.
I'm sure by now you can guess where I'm going with this.
I've passed a couple of times lately and it has been all locked up. We had some stuff due that we'd ordered so while we were out and about this morning we called to see if our stuff had arrived. I had to ask the owner to open the warehouse and asked him why it was locked up now. As I feared there had been a couple of items gone missing.
I was crushed! What a disappointement that we seem to be "catching up" with mainland UK.
The worst is, and I risk being pilloried for this, one can't help but think "bloody incomers". If I think that, and I am one, you know others have to be!
Sad, sad, sad.
P.S.
I did toy with whether or not I should post this. But then thought it better to "tell it how it is". |
As you can see from the pic our house is a very old croft style house with a stone roof. The house its self is very solid with nearly two foot thick walls and aforementioned stone roof.
Hello all, just thought I would tell you about my new porch, yes PORCH not Porsche! pretty boring to some I suppose, but as you can see from the picture opposite, heaven to Spot the dog and myself.
Sometimes we see a large ship on the horizon going who knows where.