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Even my brochophilia hadn't struck way back when I came up and started working at The Howe of Howe. Then a few years back it suddenly struck me as silly for someone living in Orkney to have visited less than a handful of sites. So I made a decision to make up for it. Than a while later my boss found out I didn't have to work every weekend and dropped my overtime to once a fortnight, and with one mighty bound I was free. One day a fortnight to boldly go (by public transport). Then I found you chaps and fieldwork turned into an obsession. Now that I am bereft of work this is my yoga.

Oh, and the growing realisation that minor sites were going a-begging. Guess I am more antiquarian than archaeologist still.

both my husband and i recently retired and we took a course in archaeology at the local college, our instructor was quite keen on stone circles and recommended swinside which is within a reasonable car journey from our home in lancashire. i was just overwhelmed by the circle and since then hubby and me have yomped all over the place visiting as many of them as we can,this year we off to ireland and the orkneys.... certainly beats d.i.y. knitting