Simmer Dim on Mousa
Jun. 22nd, 2019 10:24 pmWhere does the time go? It is Saturday, and we are back on board the MV Hrossey. Fair Isle has fallen behind us, the solstice is past, and we are leaving the north. But I was part way through writing about what we did on Wednesday -
Through the day we took it easy. A stroll along to the stream took us to the visitor centre at Hoswick, where we had lunch. All-day breakfast for![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
durham_rambler, mackerel pâté for me, we are nothing if not predictable. A visit to the two contrasting knitwear shops: the utterly traditional Laurence Odie, with its display of Fair Isle scarves with a Viking longboat design and its plaque commemorating the visit of the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh and Princess Anne in the 1960s, and next door NielaNell, "The alternative Shetland knitwear". Later we visited the water mill at Quendale, and walked on the beach at Levenwick (which we can see from our balcony here at Sandwick). All very gentle, because we were saving ourselves for the excitement of a boat trip to Mousa:
( Like a fairy being sick )
So when it came to getting up to watch the sun rise on the solstice itself, I admit I wasn't enthusiastic: hadn't we done that already?durham_rambler and D. got up, and I looked out of the window at the solid cloud cover and declined to join them - and the sun, of course, did not visibly rise. As I write this, though, it is setting into the sea in a blaze of red and gold.
Through the day we took it easy. A stroll along to the stream took us to the visitor centre at Hoswick, where we had lunch. All-day breakfast for
durham_rambler, mackerel pâté for me, we are nothing if not predictable. A visit to the two contrasting knitwear shops: the utterly traditional Laurence Odie, with its display of Fair Isle scarves with a Viking longboat design and its plaque commemorating the visit of the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh and Princess Anne in the 1960s, and next door NielaNell, "The alternative Shetland knitwear". Later we visited the water mill at Quendale, and walked on the beach at Levenwick (which we can see from our balcony here at Sandwick). All very gentle, because we were saving ourselves for the excitement of a boat trip to Mousa:( Like a fairy being sick )
So when it came to getting up to watch the sun rise on the solstice itself, I admit I wasn't enthusiastic: hadn't we done that already?
durham_rambler and D. got up, and I looked out of the window at the solid cloud cover and declined to join them - and the sun, of course, did not visibly rise. As I write this, though, it is setting into the sea in a blaze of red and gold.
