33% of the Graemsay population is under 14! I don't know of any online arial shots of the whole of the island, I know some folk have taken photos from the top of Ward Hill. I'll see if I can locate one such. You will find Graemsay on the Ship Plotter map on www.graemsay.org.uk the island has a grey "ballon" over it labelled "Isle of Graemsay". Yes it is a quiet life on Graemsay. If folk choose they can become a "recluse" but most of us are fairly involved in the community. There's a kind of inter-dependence among us. For example I can't lift the 5 gallon jerry-cans full of petrol that come across on the ferry for my island car. So I rely on a neighbour to deliver to the house and decant into smaller jerry-cans. However this neighbour doesn't often visit town so I run errands for him whenever I am in town. When I lived South I hated asking for help, but on Graemsay I feel I can always do something in return. And yes i have 9 hens and two "roosters". I am grateful for 3 feet thick walls and double glazing..... neighbours also have cockerals and there is often a competition in the morning between them all. In the summer this starts at 3am...... in the winter at a more civilised hour - about 8.30am. Sian ----- Original Message ----- From: "stephen davie" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 3:08 PM Subject: [ORCADIA] Intrigued with Graemsay? > Great to be able to hear from ya online Sian. You are a good > ambassador for your fair Graemsay isle as Bruce is for Stronsay. > Twould be a dream to live a quiet life there... feed the birds, raise > a few grouse and highland cattle, and perhaps have a part time job > such as being the designated temperature recorder, or the fellow who > empties the rain meter and records the fall. Maybe keep a few hens > and a noisy rooster too. When they get on your nerves...eat em! Then > get new ones in the spring. > > cheers...stephen > Orcadia Group Photo Album > http://tinyurl.com/28bx9x > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

All, Tuck here, back from a glorius four weeks in England. I have been to all the inhabited islands in Orkney, save Graemsay and Flotta. However, there is another that is in a shady category, and that is Swona. My daughter went there some years ago to band birds (she reported that razor bills are NOT named for the shape of their bills...) and she saw the following. there was a house there, with a couple living in it. One afternoon the wife laid out things for tea; cakes, bread, jams, cups, plates, etc. Suddenly the husband fell ill with a heart attack, so she got him to boat and over to the Kirkwall hospital as quickly as she could, but he died there. She never returned. So now the house contains the table, still laid for tea, the bread and cakes long crumbled and everything coated with dust and cobwebs. But there in the sitting room is the mummified leathery carcass of a cow that wandered in and couldn't find its way out. Does this island count as inhabited? Tuck On Sep 15, 2007, at 11:34 AM, Sian Thomas wrote: > 33% of the Graemsay population is under 14! I don't know of any > online > arial shots of the whole of the island, I know some folk have taken > photos > from the top of Ward Hill. I'll see if I can locate one such. You > will > find Graemsay on the Ship Plotter map on www.graemsay.org.uk the > island has > a grey "ballon" over it labelled "Isle of Graemsay". > > Yes it is a quiet life on Graemsay. If folk choose they can become a > "recluse" but most of us are fairly involved in the community. > There's a > kind of inter-dependence among us. For example I can't lift the 5 > gallon > jerry-cans full of petrol that come across on the ferry for my > island car. > So I rely on a neighbour to deliver to the house and decant into > smaller > jerry-cans. However this neighbour doesn't often visit town so I run > errands for him whenever I am in town. When I lived South I hated > asking > for help, but on Graemsay I feel I can always do something in return. > > And yes i have 9 hens and two "roosters". I am grateful for 3 feet > thick > walls and double glazing..... neighbours also have cockerals and > there is > often a competition in the morning between them all. In the summer > this > starts at 3am...... in the winter at a more civilised hour - about > 8.30am. > > Sian > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "stephen davie" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 3:08 PM > Subject: [ORCADIA] Intrigued with Graemsay? > > >> Great to be able to hear from ya online Sian. You are a good >> ambassador for your fair Graemsay isle as Bruce is for Stronsay. >> Twould be a dream to live a quiet life there... feed the birds, raise >> a few grouse and highland cattle, and perhaps have a part time job >> such as being the designated temperature recorder, or the fellow who >> empties the rain meter and records the fall. Maybe keep a few hens >> and a noisy rooster too. When they get on your nerves...eat em! Then >> get new ones in the spring. >> >> cheers...stephen >> Orcadia Group Photo Album >> http://tinyurl.com/28bx9x >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > _______________________________________ > Orcadia Group Photo Album > http://tinyurl.com/28bx9x > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ORCADIA- > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message

Well.... I don't recall that we have delved into the subject of Orkney ghosts,,but unless there are such things my guess is that it would not qualified as "inhabited"...unless you count the razor bills. R -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tuck Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2007 11:10 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ORCADIA] Intrigued with Graemsay? All, Tuck here, back from a glorius four weeks in England. I have been to all the inhabited islands in Orkney, save Graemsay and Flotta. However, there is another that is in a shady category, and that is Swona. My daughter went there some years ago to band birds (she reported that razor bills are NOT named for the shape of their bills...) and she saw the following. there was a house there, with a couple living in it. One afternoon the wife laid out things for tea; cakes, bread, jams, cups, plates, etc. Suddenly the husband fell ill with a heart attack, so she got him to boat and over to the Kirkwall hospital as quickly as she could, but he died there. She never returned. So now the house contains the table, still laid for tea, the bread and cakes long crumbled and everything coated with dust and cobwebs. But there in the sitting room is the mummified leathery carcass of a cow that wandered in and couldn't find its way out. Does this island count as inhabited? Tuck On Sep 15, 2007, at 11:34 AM, Sian Thomas wrote: > 33% of the Graemsay population is under 14! I don't know of any > online > arial shots of the whole of the island, I know some folk have taken > photos > from the top of Ward Hill. I'll see if I can locate one such. You > will > find Graemsay on the Ship Plotter map on www.graemsay.org.uk the > island has > a grey "ballon" over it labelled "Isle of Graemsay". > > Yes it is a quiet life on Graemsay. If folk choose they can become a > "recluse" but most of us are fairly involved in the community. > There's a > kind of inter-dependence among us. For example I can't lift the 5 > gallon > jerry-cans full of petrol that come across on the ferry for my > island car. > So I rely on a neighbour to deliver to the house and decant into > smaller > jerry-cans. However this neighbour doesn't often visit town so I run > errands for him whenever I am in town. When I lived South I hated > asking > for help, but on Graemsay I feel I can always do something in return. > > And yes i have 9 hens and two "roosters". I am grateful for 3 feet > thick > walls and double glazing..... neighbours also have cockerals and > there is > often a competition in the morning between them all. In the summer > this > starts at 3am...... in the winter at a more civilised hour - about > 8.30am. > > Sian > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "stephen davie" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 3:08 PM > Subject: [ORCADIA] Intrigued with Graemsay? > > >> Great to be able to hear from ya online Sian. You are a good >> ambassador for your fair Graemsay isle as Bruce is for Stronsay. >> Twould be a dream to live a quiet life there... feed the birds, raise >> a few grouse and highland cattle, and perhaps have a part time job >> such as being the designated temperature recorder, or the fellow who >> empties the rain meter and records the fall. Maybe keep a few hens >> and a noisy rooster too. When they get on your nerves...eat em! Then >> get new ones in the spring. >> >> cheers...stephen >> Orcadia Group Photo Album >> http://tinyurl.com/28bx9x >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > _______________________________________ > Orcadia Group Photo Album > http://tinyurl.com/28bx9x > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ORCADIA- > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message _______________________________________ Orcadia Group Photo Album http://tinyurl.com/28bx9x ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Do they have a poultry show in Orkney at any of the fall fairs? Our smaller rural fall fairs here are big on fowl. We raised Auracanas, a south american bird that lays blue eggs low in fat. At least that was the story, but the eggs were blue to be sure. Do your birds run free? Free range birds taste so much better. Interesting note....thanks Sian...Stephen On Sep 15, 2007, at 11:34 AM, Sian Thomas wrote: > 33% of the Graemsay population is under 14! I don't know of any > online > arial shots of the whole of the island, I know some folk have taken > photos > from the top of Ward Hill. I'll see if I can locate one such. You > will > find Graemsay on the Ship Plotter map on www.graemsay.org.uk the > island has > a grey "ballon" over it labelled "Isle of Graemsay". > > Yes it is a quiet life on Graemsay. If folk choose they can become a > "recluse" but most of us are fairly involved in the community. > There's a > kind of inter-dependence among us. For example I can't lift the 5 > gallon > jerry-cans full of petrol that come across on the ferry for my > island car. > So I rely on a neighbour to deliver to the house and decant into > smaller > jerry-cans. However this neighbour doesn't often visit town so I run > errands for him whenever I am in town. When I lived South I hated > asking > for help, but on Graemsay I feel I can always do something in return. > > And yes i have 9 hens and two "roosters". I am grateful for 3 feet > thick > walls and double glazing..... neighbours also have cockerals and > there is > often a competition in the morning between them all. In the summer > this > starts at 3am...... in the winter at a more civilised hour - about > 8.30am. > > Sian > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "stephen davie" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 3:08 PM > Subject: [ORCADIA] Intrigued with Graemsay? > > >> Great to be able to hear from ya online Sian. You are a good >> ambassador for your fair Graemsay isle as Bruce is for Stronsay. >> Twould be a dream to live a quiet life there... feed the birds, raise >> a few grouse and highland cattle, and perhaps have a part time job >> such as being the designated temperature recorder, or the fellow who >> empties the rain meter and records the fall. Maybe keep a few hens >> and a noisy rooster too. When they get on your nerves...eat em! Then >> get new ones in the spring. >> >> cheers...stephen >> Orcadia Group Photo Album >> http://tinyurl.com/28bx9x >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > _______________________________________ > Orcadia Group Photo Album > http://tinyurl.com/28bx9x > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ORCADIA- > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message