Suicidal ducks

As reported before, the ducks do tend to go out for a wander. They do come back though.

So I was coming up the hill and met an obstruction in the road  . Stopping , sounding the horn, advancing menacingly towards them in the car  all had no effect .  After a  minute or so  they clearly got fed up with wandering round the middle  of the road and went off to explore the neighbours' field.

And i was the permitted to go on my way.

But they are probably safe here. Livestock in the road is not that infrequent. True , someone lost one of their ducks when they went exploring the main Stromness to Kirkwall road  but the chickens that regularly  hang round  next to the main road don't seem tot be diminishing in numbers.

It's an A Road

We dont live at the back of beyond - we live on a major trunk road -the A966 from  Norseman to Dounby. The road sign at the junction says so.  And there are other examples travelling up the of the A966  here. Its a trunk orad after all. And there are lots of passing places


there was a major accident on the main Finstown to Stromness road, which led to it being closed and all the traffic was diverted along the A966. So  a steady stream of traffic was going upand down the hill in the course of an evening .  And not everyone is as patient as they should be . And they have between them nad e mess fo the verges as they squeezed past each other.

And all the mud over theroad - nut never mind there has been enough rain  to sort the problem out. it would have served someone right if the had ended up in the ditch and needed to be pulled out.

So with the Lyde closed as well as the main road, that would have caused some chaos