ricardian
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I live on the island of Stronsay (population 400) in Orkney. I retired from the Civil Service in 2003 and we moved up here from Scarborough (Yorkshire) 6 years ago. Although I've no formal qualifications I've been a church organist for many years and now play an elderly but still reliable electronic organ (a Wyvern) in the local Church of Scotland church on Stronsay. In our previous (Anglican) parish in Scarborough I was the regular organist at the two churches; one church was medieval and "middle of the road" Anglican, the other church was built in 1955 and had an anglo-catholic style of worship (incense, bells, stations of the cross etc). Quite a culture shock moving to the Presbyterian, "hymn sandwich" style of worship although I had been the organist at the Church of Scotland in Brora, Sutherland about 30 years ago.