Valerie Gillies

And although that was quite a time ago now, but they were our teachers in that hospital, what people found helpful.

And really, it's all been so moving to find that people can move on from where they had got stuck.

Yes, I'll read you in Scots, because I don't often do that.

This one's called

on drowsy Bray.

And it ties in with the end of COVID and people feeling exhausted and what can we do next?

Or can we do anything?

And how tired they are by whatever work they do.

And the photograph shows you, you're in the grasses looking across to the island of Hoy.

Looking out and there's the waters between you and the island.

But it's as if you write deep among the grasses.

On drowsy brae.

What are you doing here on drowsy brae?

Letting the grass grow aneath ye.

In a mang this saft brome.

We'll kent as sleepies.

For wandert we're dover an hour.

tacking a rip o' ploughgress for a pillow, or it is nid not noddy.

Our darg maks a sair for fochtan, and tagled we all the changes we've lain doon tyke tired.

We'll streak our length on drowsy bray, for that'll keep our banes green.