Day 8 -The Long and Winding Street

This is the Street. It is the main thoroughfare in Stromness allowing access to shops and houses by pedestrians and cars. It is the bane of His Lordship's knees and one of my favourite features of this town.

The folk here go in for big cars, not for them small Smart cars or little saloons. No they like big, shiny cars and 4 wheel drives and they drive with a deadline in mind, taking up most of the width of the street meaning that it is necessary to jinx about to stop being run over if you are a pedestrian. Hence the sufferance of HL's knees which prefer walking in a straight line.
Bigger than the cars are the camper vans which dwarf the street as they try to reach the camping site instead of going along a perfectly normal sized road at the back of the town. If they try to pass, it is best to be thin.

Our Sunday routine is considerably altered on holiday. The early morning devotions at Temples of Toast are delayed and as the Sunday papers don't appear until lunch time, we have had to adapt. It is an exercise in flexibility and definitely good for the soul.

The weather is a work in progress, but definitely improving. It is certainly a chilly' feeling like 9 degrees' but the wind has died down and it is not raining. The ferry from Scrabster was 3 hours late in arriving into Stromness yesterday afternoon, a delay which caused me quite a bit of consternation, given my preoccupation with its comings and goings. I do love ferry watching......... I feel a blog coming on.....but another time perhaps.

There was a yellow jacketed Border Guard sniffing about the Marina this morning. A necessary precaution I would say.