Scottish Sun's St Andrew's Night Street Party 2008

Last Saturday night, the Scottish Sun newspaper hosted a street party in Kirkwall's Broad Street to finish off their campaign to get Scotland celebrating St Andrew's Day...

Read about it here.

There was a fireworks display, and local bands playing from 7pm - Midnight... all watched by about 3,000 folk who braved the freezing temperatures.

And local band, Shoot The Piper, playing on Broad Street...

Any Prizes For Guessing....

... what this started life as?

This was taken the same day as the fish photo, in the Peerie Sea again. It makes for an unusual reef, and I dare say any wee fishes would have been swimming in it quite happily, but it angers me that people litter up the place with things like this that could end up harming the wildlife.

D'Yer Want Chips Wi' That?

There's a wee lake / model boat pond in Kirkwall called The Peerie Sea (or Peedie, there's some "healthy debate" about the correct spelling, because "Peerie" is the Shetland word for little, and "Peedie" would be the Orkney version, but it does appear on old maps as "Peerie", and that's what I've always called it), and it has a path around it so you can cross at low tide...

At one bit, just by the sluice gates that can drain it into the sea if the water level gets too high, it's very shallow. When I was a kid, there used to be peedie (lol... peerie?) fishes in that bit, and you could watch them swimming.

Well, one day I was walking on the path, by this shallow bit, and I thought "I wonder if there are still any wee fishes in here?" - And just about wet myself laughing when I looked down at my side, and saw this:

He wasn't quite what I had in mind!