Showers dwindling for the afternoon, while sunny spells increase. Maximum temperature 11 °C.
Weather Forecast: Scattered showers mainly during morning. Sunny spells increasing through afternoon.
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Science Festival Photography Competition
Orkney International Science Festival has launched a Wildlife Photography Competition as part of this year’s festival, and entries are now open.
Children’s Laureate Visits Orkney
“I am delighted to be joining the Scottish Friendly Children’s Book Tour organised by Scottish Book Trust in May. I look forward to visiting schools and libraries in Orkney, the Highlands and the Western Isles and sharing my love of books and reading with its local communities.’ Joseph Coelho
Weather Forecast: Sunshine and Showers Today
Westerly breezes. Maximum temperature 12 °C.
Drop in UK’s Seafarer Workforce
The most recent UK Maritime and Shipping statistics show a drop in seafarers active at sea from 24,240 to 22,510 for the UK Shipping Industry.
Bookbug’s Big Shoogle
Bookbug Week is taking place this week (15–21 May), encouraging little ones and their families to dance to their favourite songs and rhymes and then cosy up with a story.
‘On Children’, a Poem for International Day of Families
“You may give them your love but not your thoughts,/ For they have their own thoughts.” Kahlil Gibran
Weather Forecast: Rain Sunday morning, clearing to sunshine and showers later.
Fresh southerly winds at first, but turning westerly and easing in afternoon. Maximum temperature 11 °C.
Power Struggle for New York City & the Mystery of Dinosaur Destruction
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkin’s conceptual drawing of the Paleozoic Museum. Image credit Annual report of the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park (1858)
Book Review: The Astronomer and the Witch, Johannes Kepler’s Fight for His Mother
“No history of astronomy is complete without mentioning that Johannes Kepler had to defend his mother against charges of witchcraft; and in most of them it is just that, a mention.”
