Hi Bruce, Yes very interested to hear you've arrived at your new home in Orkney - what are you and your family's first impressions of Stronsay?? Hope all worldly goods arrive safely on the ferry today. Best wishes for a happy future up there, Fiona (York UK) >From: "Bruce Fletcher (Orkney)" <ricardian@btinternet.com> >Reply-To: ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com >To: ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [<orcadia>] New arrival on Stronsay >Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 20:40:10 +0100 > >Just a short note to let anyone interested know that we have now >(eventually) arrived on Stronsay and hope to have household goods arrive, >courtesy of McAdie & Reeve, on the ferry tomorrow (Friday) lunchtime. >-- >Bruce Fletcher >Stronsay, Orkney > > >==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== >To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the word >'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com > _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself with cool emoticons - download MSN Messenger today! http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger

Many thanks for all the good wishes. Our furniture did arrive safely on Friday. The removal firm (McAdie & Reeve) had unloaded our effects before 5 pm. Now all we have to do is unpack the boxes and find out what we have got and decide where it is to be put. How we manage to fit all this into our previous house is a mystery. We shall most certainly enjoy our retirement here, everyone is so friendly and helpful. Although we only arrived on Wednesday evening by Thursday lunch-time we had already had several visitors wishing us well in our new home including one lady who brought Maureen a vase of daffodils. -- Bruce Fletcher Stronsay, Orkney