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Last full day on #orkney for us, and it's looking like #WestrayWednesday. The weather is as clear as you could wish for 3 minutes ago via TweetDeck
Frost twitpic.com/9qua5i about 1 hour ago via TweetDeck
@TomSprints nope. We went over the top via Sandy Loch. Seem to have missed lots - of course we must come back! about 10 hours ago via TweetDeck in reply to TomSprints
@TomSprints no? Shipwrecks you mean? Went direct from strom, prob go back via graemsay about 13 hours ago via TweetDeck in reply to TomSprints
@cookyh worth the 8mile walk! :) xx about 13 hours ago via TweetDeck in reply to cookyh
@NickJonesCOI the rocks on the beach were *blue*, it was really weird in a nice IKEA themed way :) about 13 hours ago via TweetDeck in reply to NickJonesCOI
@TomSprints yes, and our own refusal to be rushed as well! Not to worry :) about 13 hours ago via TweetDeck in reply to TomSprints
Hoy turned out to be flipping lovely. Made it to Rackwick Bay, not as far as the Old Man twitpic.com/9qo4tp about 14 hours ago via TweetDeck
@annholman we are being experimented in by mice about 21 hours ago via TweetDeck in reply to annholman
Having a coffee in #Stromness before catching the ferry to Hoy. Looks quite forbidding over there about 22 hours ago via TweetDeck
@davidrendall yep, something like that depending on time. about 23 hours ago via TweetDeck in reply to davidrendall
@davidrendall moness from Stromness if I read the schedule right! :) about 23 hours ago via TweetDeck in reply to davidrendall
Up too early, but I will not be defeated by #orkney ferries a second time! Hoy today. Definitely. Hopefully about 24 hours ago via TweetDeck
@LexPRnMarketing also, which people? Policy always involves trade offs between different stakeholders. Media storm != "the people speaking" about 24 hours ago via TweetDeck in reply to LexPRnMarketing
@LexPRnMarketing I'm too far away to read the small print, but suspect the policy hasn't changed much at all about 24 hours ago via TweetDeck in reply to LexPRnMarketing
@Huxxy it's a grass snake. Totally harmless. 9:09 PM May 28th via TweetDeck in reply to Huxxy
@SueTylcoat can you get gluten-free pasties? 12:26 PM May 28th via TweetDeck in reply to SueTylcoat
@annkempster I wasn't really into it until we went round NZ in a campervan. More solid than a tent and more comfortable too 12:12 PM May 28th via TweetDeck in reply to annkempster
@prettysimple @alexstobart @markbraggins struggling to access on the phone - will check on return to base :) 11:44 AM May 28th via TweetDeck in reply to prettysimple
I think that quoted passage is from the #orkney Ingasaga but it appears on the walls of Helgi's bar in Kirkwall 11:42 AM May 28th via TweetDeck

Name Martin Howitt
Location Exeter, UK
Web http://forestandt...
Bio ICT Strategy wonk in #localgov. Likes bands with 'head' in their name, sings with #lalachoir. Framework addict. Plenty of non-professional tweets.