I Beg Your Pardon...Do You Garden?

Gunnie Moberg:Double exposure images made in the garden at Don. These ones date between 1996 -2003. The scans are made from Gunnie’s test prints.

We complain about the weather a lot on this blog and typical Orkney has provided plenty of grist for our grumpy mill this year with thunder, torrential rain, heat-waves and icy winds. Sometimes all in one morning.


The mood is definitely more Summery now though and we have had a lot of lovely days. We should probably do our gardens but we will probably just lie around eating twixes instead. (Other chocolate bars are available... like wispas....or snickers.... or, oooh, the yorkies with raison and biscuits in... mmmmmm)




It has been over a year now since Rebecca Marr left the Gunnie Moberg Archive but her lovely blog about the process of cataloguing the collection is still active and it is worth taking a look at this post on Gunnie's beautiful Stromness garden if you are feeling gardeny yet lazy.




You can look at Rebecca's own photographs here.

A Little Afternoon Lift

It is a funny, grumpy kind of day with few customers, lots of quite dull correspondence to complete and rather lovely weather outside that we cannot enjoy. There is only one cure:




No Orkney connection you say? Nonsense! It is a song from the 70s and stuff happened in Orkney during the 1970s, the 1870s, the 1770s etc, the list goes on...