A Nice Thing to do on a Wednesday ...

 is to go to a fundraising strawberry tea. Which is what we did this week. 

I'd had a flyer about it from someone at the knitting group last Friday, and it was only in Dollar which is a large village not very far away, so we thought we would go. Show support, browse the stalls, buy a raffle ticket, enjoy the strawberries. 

Dollar is lovely, lots of beautiful old stone houses and there's a river running through it - (not something you can say about any village in Orkney). It is also an absolute pain for parking so we walked quite a long way up the river to get to the venue. Not a hardship as it was a warm afternoon and it's very scenic. it also has a very picturesque bridge. 

The venue was absolutely packed; it's obviously a very popular (annual) event, raising money for the local museum. There were nice flower arrangements on the tables - this was ours

and the tea was very nice too. well actually, the tea was a bit weak, but the scone was very good! And you can;t go wrong with strawberries.

On the way out I said hello to the person who gave me the flier and it was patently obvious she hadn't a clue who I was which was  a bit of a downer actually, but there you go. It will be that 'seeing people out of context thing' which to be fair was quite a feature of Orkney life. We missed the raffle table as it was on the other side of the hall to the way we entered and exited, and the ravening hordes had hit the cake stall before we got to it, so we didn't buy anything extra. It was fun, but I don't know whether we'll go again next year, if only because  of the parking thing.