thanks, Sian. What a different way of life from my small suburb of a fair-sized city (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) where (the suburb) if you say you are "going in to town" it means Philadelphia. Where the widest green spaces are either large estates (few and far between) or Fairmount Park, which is huge, many thousands of acres of forested and open parkland withing the city limits. Where the only animals to be found are dogs, cats, (wild and tame) rabbits, and the usual rodents. Deer (well, they too are rodents, just large). And where one of my small pleasures, now that my children are adults, is watching the neighborhood children walk past on their way to school Bruce-- is the small school house on Stronsay (adjacent to either the Bu or Housebay farm) still in operation? Anne in Ardmore On 9/17/07, Sian Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > If it's a recent picture you would see hundreds of black and green round > silage bales! Half the island is owned by one farmer, who keeps about 120 > head of cattle plus "followers" - calves.