Birsay and Barony Mill In which Lis visits a water mill and makes bannock from a 5000+ year old type of barley. For the next week, this is the view from my bedroom window, out over Waulkmill Bay and the Loch of Kirbister. I’m staying in a lovely bed and breakfast called Foinhaven. I went for a short hike near Birsay, along the cliffs and through farmland. The oblong hollows (nousts) in the picture above (a place called Skiba Geo) were where fishermen kept boats when they brought them up from the shore. The above geo (narrow inlet from the sea in a ravine), like many coastal cliffs, had many…