Oops! Havnt posted anything for ages. Have been busy seeing all my friends and stuff. Spent a lovely weekend with my best pals Paul and Becki, and their little boy Callum (who calls me Nonenna!). They recently moved to Finstown, a village on the mainland of Orkney, and this is the view from their back garden. They almost always have seals (or selkies) there, and apparently on Callums 2nd birthday there was 22 of them!
There are so many Orkney stories about the selkies. Folklore has it that when its sunny they come up to the beach and take their skins of and become selkie folk. Selkie folk are beautiful women, who sun themselves and play on the beach. They have lovely singing voices, and pale white skin. There are lots of stories of Orkney men snatching a selkie skin as the selkie folk play, and the selkie then becoming the mans wife, as they cant return to the sea without their skin. They fall in love, have lots of 'bonnie bairns' but then one day the selkie woman finds her old skin and returns to her home in the sea never to be seen again.
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