05.07.2024, A day at home for me

 This morning was Clean Linen day. Master and Missus stayed in as Leona the owner was bringing the clean sheets etc. She arrived at about 10.30. M &M got the bed sheets changed  and the towels and put them in the bag outside for Leona to collect. They had quite a conversation her, about Orkney and its interesting places. Missus had a go with the Hoover, the suction was so strong she could hardly shift it! Master emptied it as collection bin was quite full.

I was very tired after my epic climb up a Stone at Stenness yesterday so Master and Missus left us all at home today to rest. They decided to go to Kirkwall and get Master's SD card back from the Orkney Archive. They were able to park in the same place as they did the other day. Master had given them some photos on his SD card that he had taken in 1967 when he was 13 and came with his  Mother to Orkney, and had been phoned up to say his card was ready to pick up. He got his card and then discussed whether the House in one of the photos with the Cathedral behind it might have been the Hotel they stayed in. A gentleman at the archive was fairly sure it had never been a Hotel, but it had been renovated in the 1960s. It is called Tankerness House. The lady at the Archive printed a couple of photos of the house and Garden out and the gentleman at the Archive gave Master a tube to put it in so it wouldn't get creased. The tube turned out to be an old whisky bottle container. Apparently it was a very fine whisky! The man from the archive had collected these round boxes when he had worked in a bar. They had a good laugh about it. Also the lady in the Archives was able to show us the back of the house which is now the Orkney Museum, that Master had photographed, you could see it clearly from the archives window. Masters photos and story have now been published on the Orkney Archive website.

After the visit to the Archives, Master and Missus went to lunch in the Magnus Café via the gardens of The house Master had been in when he took the photograph. It was quite busy in the café as usual,  but they did manage to get a table. They said they had soup, Master had a bacon roll and Missus had a hotdog with fried onions and for afters Master had Choccy cake and Missus had a Biscof  mashmallow confection. They both had coffee. 

After they went to Tankerness House which is now the Orkney Museum. A woman we saw in the shop was foreign and got the wrong end of the stick when Master said he had got something for them, so went off to get a colleague. This mature gentleman emerged from the office and Master showed him the photographs. He was very interested with Masters story and enlightened him that Tankerness  House did in fact become the museum in 1967. So Master must have visited the museum. Master gave the photographs to the museum. They then went to look round. Now I am a bit Jealous because there is a special exhibition in there till September of artifacts from the Ness of Brodgar Dig. They apparently were stunning. There was so much to see. Missus bought the new book and she bought me a Ness of Brodgar badge to wear, so they are forgiven.

Me wearing my new Ness of Brodgar badge, its the green one on the left

Plaque on Tankerness House, Now the Orkney Museum.

Then they went into a shop because Master needed a new SD card reader to plug into his computer. Missus had a protective cover put on the face of my phone. So hopefully it won't get scratched.  After that they had a look round the Craft fair that is on at the moment in the Town Hall same place as The Magnus Café. Then they came home. 

There was a lady cutting the grass this afternoon and Master says we now have new people in the  let next door to ours.