Sheeps, Neeps & Penny Candy

When you live on a small island (of 350 people), you are not going to have a big shop. The town of 900 people that I grew up in had a general store that had the bare necessities, but there were other stores in the next town over. On Stronsay, it's a 2 hour boat ride to the "other stores", so the stores that are there (2 I believe, although I only saw inside 1) need to cover a lot more of the "basics" than what you'd normally consider for a country store or general store. Consider all of your possibilites: vegetables, birthday gifts, toys, cards, canned goods, ice cream, tackle, boots....it's wide ranging.
Here is the view of the ferry stop (blue square on the left side of the photo) from the shop: And the Shop itself, notice the sign so you can tell it's a shop? Honestly it did not look like a shop on the outside, it's a good thing there is a sign there!
The vegetable section and part of the refrigerator section. This is not the kind of store you can normally go to with a list of specific vegetables....instead you have to have a general idea and a skill to improvise when needed.
Here they are, NEEPS! Or, to some of us, Turnips the size of your head....
The toy store...or rather, the toy section...
Penny candy under the counter...yes there really IS still candy you can buy for a penny!
I had to photograph this....the biscuit section. One of the things I loved about Stronsay was Jennifer's biscuit bin....out comes tea and out comes this fantastic bin of various kinds of biscuits and cakes and cookies like I've never seen before! It was exciting and tasty to try them all! the favorites were the Jaffa cakes (which for some reason I started calling giraffe cakes by the end of the week) and these shortbread cookies with dried blueberries in them, very yummy!
A stained glass window at Jennifer's Church...
Maddie checking out her career options...
Outside the church...
We walked down the road a bit and loved seeing that Stronsay has it's own red phone booth... albeit non-operational...
window of a house...
Everywhere we saw sheep Maddie would exclaim "Baa! Baaa!" By the end of the week she could spot them even as tiny dots on distant fields and identify them as sheep!
These were one of several sets of twins...Mama 8 with Little 8a and little 8b. Or, 8, 8 and 8.
The road leading off from the Manse.
More "baa baa".