Old-style baking is his bread and butter

There’s a quality to islands, a self-contained mystery — as if somewhere in their depths is the answer to a gentle, less hurried way of life.

The truth is more prosaic. Life on this country’s offshore islands has been hard, lonely, and fraught with the struggle for survival. Many of their inhabitants have been forced to leave and head for America, the UK or Australia to make a living.

For those who live on islands today, the difficulty has still been in devising new and economically viable ways of making a living.