by Jane Haselden | Oct 8, 2020 | Orkney Islands
We have gone full circle in our new life in the Orkney Islands and as we celebrated the anniversary of moving up here, the seasons changed once again to autumn. This time though, I feel prepared to take autumn in and experience all that it has to offer. Last year, as...
by Jane Haselden | Jul 30, 2020 | Self-Sufficiency
We started our vegetable growing adventure in Orkney back in March, at the beginning of the covid-19 lockdown. At the time I didn’t really expect to have much success. Having only moved to the island in November 2019, we hadn’t yet had a chance to get a...
by Jane Haselden | Jun 1, 2020 | Orkney Islands
Our big move to a little island off the coast of Scotland, is likely to have a big affect on our toddler. Unlike our other four children, her earliest memories will be of life here and the freedom that it offers. Her picture of the world is being formed from this...
by Jane Haselden | Apr 5, 2020 | Orkney Islands
I didn’t have access to a computer when we first moved to Orkney. We had put a van-full of our belongings into storage and were living out of suitcases. I did however take a lot of photos and it doesn’t seem right to start a blog about our life here,...
