I think other peoples blogs are fascinating ;) on my weaving group, someone blogs from the Fair Isles about her smallholding - she's going in for raising pure breed shetlands, because randy roman-nosed (english) rams (longer legs mean they can jump walls) have besmirched the honour of shetland ewes - now where else would you learn that fact...

As for being disorientated, woods always do that for me, probably because I don't know where the sun is, and also Whitby being on the east coast, therefore if the sea is on my right I'm facing north, yet in Wales on the coast its the opposite...