About Me

Hiiii.

My name is Laura Campbell. Welcome to my world. This is my blog.

I live in Dundee, but grew up in Falkirk. So where does Orkney come into it? I hear you ask...Well, as I say, I grew up in Falkirk, but at the age of 16 my mum made the move to Orkney and now I call it home. Many of my old friends object to me calling Orkney home, but for me, home is where my mum is. I live in Dundee at the moment because this is where I study, but at any spare time I can grab I sneak off to Islands all around Scotland discovering traditional, native foods and putting my own spin on it.

I grew up surrounded by animals, got my first orphan lambs at the young age of 5 (Morc and Mindy !!!) and continued to have a stream of pets.


So when the move was in motion the ferry up the road from Aberdeen resembled Noah's Ark…. Ducks in a box each in the boot… Chickens in the back seat Sally the black lab, licking her lips alot all the way… Horses in the trailer…the next trip consisted of:

Oxford Down Sheep...

Rachel the Ostrich...

The Small flock of

....and Percy and Penelope the peacocks, little Jake the cat and Megan the miniature Shetland followed next… I'm sure the Orcadians thought we were mad! 

Little missy escaped into the front garden…
Mum wasn’t pleased… but ain’t she cute?

Stripes, Amos and Megan relaxing in the sun…
with the ever resilient Orkney breeze!

After Mum built the house, she decided to hang up her nurses uniform and run a Bed and Breakfast- incidentally she has since picked the uniform up, she missed it so much and the woman can’t have anything but a quiet life!!! Click on the photo below for a link to her website, she cooks a mean breakfast to set you up for a full day if site seeing.

Your probably wondering why I started blogging… I was finding myself going on these trips, cooking the food and telling my friends all about it on a social network site...so I set up my own blog. My passion and love stem from always enjoying Home Economics at High School, but to further this I study Food and Consumer Science at The University of Abertay, Dundee, Scotland. I landed the job of a cake decorator where I really found the creative streak in me and I’ve run with it.

Also, the word “peedie” is mentioned quite a lot through my Orkney blog, this is the Orcadian word for little or “wee” : ).

“Hid hed been a guid day fur the Guidman and the Guidmife o' Linn, an, wae mair o' them tae come, thir thanks geed oot tae Guid for his blessings. The pot wid noo be filled wae the best o' fish, wae plenty o' fire under it tae keep them baith gaan for mair hard wark in the tang.”

A little snippet from folk story that I love and really shows off the Orcadian dialect. It is about a Husband “Guidman” and his Wife “Guidmife” working very hard every day, to feed themselves their neighbours with freshly caught fish from the “tang”, I love how the pot is filled for everyone and it is enough to keep them going strong.

Thank you for stumbling across me…Hope you enjoy my future posts. 

 A big smile from all of us to you.