The Suns Been Out Again...




And we find a bit of a design fault!

What is it with bovines?

The sun comes out and they all start acting like cats.

Mind you on days like these who can blame them?



Our monthly trip to Kirkwall was due again so away we went on the morning ferry to load our van to the hilt with all things ciderish..... and of course the odd tin of beans here and there. 

The return journey had a bit of a problematical start though. 

Now, this is a picture of a piece of farm machinery sat at the stern of the ferry. The green bit with the yellow painted  border is the ramp that lowers down to allow access onto or off of the ferry. 

Note the width of that ramp.

This is a RORO (Roll on one end... roll off the other) type of ship.

Here's the clincher........

The ramp at the bow end is slightly smaller than the width of that piece of machinery!!!

Sooo... it rolled on but there was no way in the world it was going to roll off.

Solution required.

Much turbo charged black smoke from the port engine......

Much whipping of the sea into a white foam........

and much frenzied activity from the crew......

The ship was soon turned on a sixpence, re-docked and the tractor could reverse off.

(I've just noticed the dog sitting in there).

The throttle was pressed hard as we were ten minutes behind by now,

and we soon left Kirkwall in the distance.

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The wake could almost have been a surfers paradise.







Until next time......................







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