![]() ![]() ![]() “To all of my friends back in London it sounded really fascinating. “Part of what the book grew out of was that, when I went back to Orkney I started putting pictures of the farm and life up there on Facebook,” Liptrot recalls. ![]() The island where her family farmed was known as the mainland – with the rest of Scotland and the UK known simply as ‘the south.’ Returning to the farm where she grew up, she would sit on an upturned bucket in a field to get reception, keeping connected with the rest of the world through photographs and stories shared on social media. Conversation opens with remarks about the weather, as we wait a few moments for the phone connection to steady – “I’ve only got one bar of signal,” Liptrot notes a familiar concern for someone who grew up on Scotland’s remote Orkney isles. ![]()
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