Day 13-Silage at Finstown

It feels at the moment as if nature is undoing all my years of hard work presenting Orkney to His Lordship as one of the most desirable places on earth to be.
The weather has not been kind to us this last fortnight and the low mist, grey skies and initial rain today did not bode well. However the rain did stop and with a change of plan, we drove to Kirkwall to have coffee in a new state of the art café that Blipper Northern told me about. Indeed, situated in the renovated old library, it is one of the most modern and pleasing cafés we have been in, and you already know what aficionados we are of the latter.

With no cruise ships in Kirkwall harbour today, HL's knees thought it more pleasant in negotiating the streets, but even then, there was a cut off point when it was better to take them for a drive on single track roads round the east of the Mainland to Evie and over the hill to Dounby and home.
Most of the cut grass in the fields has been collected and bagged, but this field at Finstown is a late starter.

Tonight we are eating with IainatCreel and the current Mrs Creel ( I hope it's the same lady as yesterday). HL is getting dressed up, and the weather is improving for the occasion. It would be so nice if it acted like midsummer.

The extra image is from the inside of the Archive Coffee shop