The Touchwood Project

Vintage style + tweed + bicycles = Tweed Run. This year’s Tweed Run event in London saw 400 immaculately dressed cyclists gallivanting about the city, soaking up the sunshine and stopping for tea at regular intervals. I’d love to do something like this, though I think argyll sweaters and multiple tweed layers will be more the order of the day than this: Which projects to try next? Already we’re… Read the rest of this article >>

Last night I realised that our campaign to promote hitchhiking on Orkney is nothing new — it simply revives a time-honoured tradition. Yep, a kind of hitchhiking used to happen all the time on our island in the form of people stopping to give lifts to each other. Why’s the bus service so bad? Over a cup of tea, Malcolm heard the story from James Stockan, our councillor for Stromness and Hoy areas, while… Read the rest of this article >>