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Dear all, Are we glad we took the opportunity to use Tuesday’s good weather to go for a walk. The weather has been pretty appalling since then, with a series of low pressure systems blowing through bringing rain, sleet and snow. On Saturday we woke to a couple of inches of wet slushy snow on […]

Dear all, We are now stuck into the work and have got as far as a series of fence posts in place around the first cemetery at Leith. Following a gloomy start to Monday, the weather cleared up by mid morning so we decided to pack up our rucksacks and head for Leith. We had

Dear all, After our interminable whining about the weather last time I am glad to report a vast improvement. Days on end of sunshine and warmth and a bit of good luck have seen the cemetery work come on in leaps and bounds. The chain fence around the smaller ‘Town’ cemetery is complete and the

Dear All We did eventually get away for our break back in the civilised world of Husvik. The RFA Gold Rover came round with the army boat aboard, on a windy horrible day and took us round the two bays in about twenty minutes, compared to the five hours it takes us to trek. Sadly

Dear all, We are now back at Husvik, having finished the two cemeteries at Leith. We had three glorious sunny days in a row so worked long and hard, standing the 16 fallen headstones of the ‘country’ cemetery upright after drilling holes and putting steel bar in to stop them falling over again. Very interesting

Dear All, Here’s wishing you all a great year in 1999. Hope you enjoyed Christmas…we did. And we have almost managed a whole day on our own since…but there is time for a mast to stick up beyond the horizon yet! Pat is off putting planks across the worst of the holes in the jetty

Dear All, What’s in your front garden? Forty eight king penguins in our front garden. We think they are up sheltering from the storms at sea. They have made an interesting diversion from the indoor nose blowing and cold coddling. Seems I successfully infected Pat after all, so our start at Stromness has been delayed

Dear all, Sarah’s special honey and medicinal brandies did the job and we are now back to our full healthy selves again. With the Christmas break behind us we walked around to Stromness to start on the next cemetery. The walk around was a little less stressful than before. Either we are getting braver with

Dear all, Crikey, another week whizzed past again already! We are now back at Husvik enjoying an enforced wait in front of the fire while snow squalls blast past every now and then. A few last days of excellent weather saw the Stromness cemetery work finished, apart from a second coat of masonry paint on

Dear all, Summer continues to throw all her variations of weather at us this week. Today, Saturday, was the first day for almost a week when we didn’t get at least a snowy shower, though none of it really settled down here at sea level. That which did settle higher up made the mountains and