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Fiona Grahame Orkney News Ltd<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.scot/@peterbrown" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>peterbrown</span></a></span> the issue in <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Orkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orkney</span></a> is with cruise liners and mobile homes who don't use the campsites, neither of which is covered by the tourist tax. The people who come and stay in accommodation or on the campsites spend money here. Is it possible the wrong people are being taxed with this levy ?</p>
Feral Strumpet<p>Storm Spirits, Evelyn De Morgan, 1900 This is <a href="https://handmade.social/tags/Orkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orkney</span></a> weather made glam. Right now we are at the centre of the painting--a moment of calm. Lightning has snakes in her hair; mythologies world wide have linked the snake with lighting or a 'serpent of light" .<a href="https://handmade.social/tags/Preraphaelites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Preraphaelites</span></a> <a href="https://handmade.social/tags/WomenArtists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenArtists</span></a> <a href="https://handmade.social/tags/FediArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FediArt</span></a></p>
Scottish Lost Places<p>Burrian,broch W shore of Loch of Harray: broch in Orkney Islands.<br>Historic Environment Scotland scheduled monument SM1430<br><a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q56666895" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="">wikidata.org/entity/Q56666895</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScottishHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScottishHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Orkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orkney</span></a></p>
Fiona Grahame Orkney News Ltd<p>Another cracker of a day in <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Orkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orkney</span></a></p>
Fiona Grahame Orkney News Ltd<p>Just how good is <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Orkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orkney</span></a> Library ?</p>
Bob Harvey<p>These courses look amazing.<br>Distance learning too!</p><p><a href="https://archaeologyorkney.com/study/online-options/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archaeologyorkney.com/study/on</span><span class="invisible">line-options/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/DistanceLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DistanceLearning</span></a> <a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/Archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Archaeology</span></a> <a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/University" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>University</span></a> <a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/Orkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orkney</span></a> <a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/Scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scotland</span></a></p><p>University of the Highlands and Islands - <a href="https://www.uhi.ac.uk/en/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">uhi.ac.uk/en/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Fiona Grahame Orkney News Ltd<p>Filmed by Mike Robertson for The Orkney News on a very wet day in Orkney. Peace campaigners came together on Saturday 29 March to continue in their calls for an immediate ceasefire, the unhindered delivery of humanitarian aid, and the release of all hostages. <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Orkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orkney</span></a> <br><a href="https://youtu.be/t5XdGMPhbx4?si=B9JqYidLoVnJu97R" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/t5XdGMPhbx4?si=B9JqYi</span><span class="invisible">dLoVnJu97R</span></a></p>
LostSettler<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://beige.party/@HarriettMB" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>HarriettMB</span></a></span> 100%. Scotland is NOT like this, in my experience. Especially not here in <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/orkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>orkney</span></a>. We should not be tying ourselves to a fascist culture of death where snitching on your neighbours is tolerated, nay encouraged, and blame culture is rampant.</p><p>Tolerance. Forgiveness. Care for each other. Care for the communities we live in. That's the Scotland I inhabit.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/freeScotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freeScotland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/dumpEngland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dumpEngland</span></a></p>
Feral Strumpet<p>There's still time to enter our GIVEAWAY! This month our shop turns 14! I started the shop on my kitchen table with a box full of beads &amp; a vision. </p><p>This month we're celebrating by giving away a Feral Care Package worth over £70 to one lucky customer. Enter to win by making a purchase of £25 or more in March. The winner will be announced on April Fool's Day.<br>Find out more about what's in the care package here: <br><a href="https://feralstrumpet.com/blogs/news/giveaway-time-we-are-14-this-month" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">feralstrumpet.com/blogs/news/g</span><span class="invisible">iveaway-time-we-are-14-this-month</span></a> <a href="https://handmade.social/tags/handmade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>handmade</span></a> <a href="https://handmade.social/tags/Scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scotland</span></a> <a href="https://handmade.social/tags/Orkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orkney</span></a> <a href="https://handmade.social/tags/Jewellery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jewellery</span></a> <a href="https://handmade.social/tags/Witchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Witchy</span></a> <a href="https://handmade.social/tags/Pagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pagan</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>On Monday she stood at the wooden wash-tub,<br>Suds to the elbow,<br>A slave among the storm-gray shirts and sheets…</p><p>—George Mackay Brown, “The Mother”<br>published in TRAVELLERS, Hachette 2014</p><p><a href="https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/none/travellers/9781848549487/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">hachette.co.uk/titles/none/tra</span><span class="invisible">vellers/9781848549487/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Orkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orkney</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/MothersDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MothersDay</span></a></p>
Cat McIntyre<p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/StandingStoneSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StandingStoneSunday</span></a> Stenness, Orkney (2023) </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/StoneCircle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StoneCircle</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/L%C3%A0NanTursachan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LàNanTursachan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Tursachan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tursachan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/StandingStones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StandingStones</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/TheStandingStonesOfStenness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheStandingStonesOfStenness</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Neolithic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neolithic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/NeolithicMonument" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeolithicMonument</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Orkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orkney</span></a></p>
Peter Brown<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>cbcnews</span></a></span> ships leaving to cross the Atlantic made their last stop at Stromness in Orkney to take on stores and especially water. This explains why in the early days of the Hudsons Bay Company a high proportion of the employees and managers were Orcadian. <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/orkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>orkney</span></a></p>
Fiona Grahame Orkney News Ltd<p>April Opening for HES Sites in&nbsp;<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Orkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orkney</span></a></p><p>The Bishop’s Palace and Earl’s Palace, the Broch of Gurness, and Hackness Martello Tower and Battery, which have been closed for the winter will reopen to visitors in April. The Bishop’s Palace is Kirkwall’s oldest surviving domestic building, dating from the early 1100s. It is the only episcopal palace ever built in Norse Scotland, and where the last Norwegian king in Scotland died.</p><p><a href="https://theorkneynews.scot/2025/03/29/april-opening-for-hes-sites-in-orkney/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theorkneynews.scot/2025/03/29/</span><span class="invisible">april-opening-for-hes-sites-in-orkney/</span></a></p>
Fiona Grahame Orkney News Ltd<p>A quiet night in Kirkwall <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Orkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orkney</span></a></p>
Monissa<p>In another place, I'm doing a thread of islands I've visited, because it fits my username. One photo every day or so. But sometimes an extra photo slips in that I can't use (because one photo per island) so I'll have to share it here.</p><p>St Tredwell's Loch, on Papa Westray, one of the smaller islands of Orkney. I don't know why a lake on an island seems so odd, but it does. Maybe because of how close it is to the sea. (You might be able to see the strip of blue sea behind the loch.)</p><p>Photo is taken from St Tredwell's Chapel, the ruins of a Medieval chapel built over Iron Age remains, or an overgrown bunch of rocks on a hill. (As you can in the foreground.)</p><p>If you're into photos of islands, the thread starts here:<br><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/islandhopping.bsky.social/post/3li44sq4nxs2t" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsky.app/profile/islandhopping</span><span class="invisible">.bsky.social/post/3li44sq4nxs2t</span></a></p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Orkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orkney</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/PapaWestray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PapaWestray</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Lakes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lakes</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Islands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Islands</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/landscapephotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>landscapephotography</span></a></p>
Fiona Grahame Orkney News Ltd<p>Vigil for <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> today in <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Orkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orkney</span></a></p>
LostSettler<p>He will be sadly missed. RIP Jake, you truly were a brilliant cat.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/jake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jake</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/orkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>orkney</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/shopCats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>shopCats</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/100063479714660/posts/1202045235254789/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">facebook.com/100063479714660/p</span><span class="invisible">osts/1202045235254789/</span></a></p>
Fiona Grahame Orkney News Ltd<p>At Kirbuster Farm Museum <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Orkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orkney</span></a></p>
Undiscovered Scotland<p>Fifty-six years ago today, on 17 March 1969, the lifeboat from Longhope in Orkney capsized with the loss of all eight crew. This is the Longhope Lifeboat Museum on Hoy, which tells the story of Longhope's lifeboats. More pics and info: <a href="https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/hoy/lifeboatmuseum/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/hoy</span><span class="invisible">/lifeboatmuseum/index.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scotland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Orkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orkney</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Hoy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hoy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
Fiona Grahame Orkney News Ltd<p>At the boat nousts Birsay <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Orkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orkney</span></a></p>
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