The daily lunches at the Peedie Kirk

Each day at 1 pm there is the One O’Clock Toast. This is a toast to a well-known person from Orkney, from recent times or the more distant past, given by someone who knows them well. There are insights from family members, descendants, and people with a deep knowledge of the life and times of someone who has made an impact on Orkney and beyond.

The subjects range widely from year to year – writers such as Eric Linklater and Ann Scott-Moncrieff, mariners like Capt. John Hourie and Capt. Robbie Sutherland, scholars including the folklorist Ernest W. Marwick and the botanist James Sinclair; pioneers such as William Reid Tullock in motoring and Murdoch Mackenzie; medical figures, among them Dr Rena Marwick and Dr Jessie Bond; and in the arts, the photographer Gunnie Moberg and the actor Robert Shaw.