News from the RSPB on how to clean and what to fill your bird feeders with.
Top Tips For Your Garden Bird Feeders
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Poetry Corner: Remember by Christina Rossetti
The hardest part of Covid is losing a loved one during this period and not being able to be with them, with family, with friends.
Environmental change and early-human innovation
The Olorgesailie Basin in Southern Kenya is possibly the world’s richest source for evidence of ancient stone-tool manufacture.
“Social media has the potential to shape the effects on our day-to-day happiness.”
“One issue is social comparison. Participants in Wirtz’s study said the more they compared themselves to others while using social media, the less happy they felt.”
Extremism And The Law
“I am a proud descendant of extremists. Farmers in Galloway during the Killing Time of the 1680s, the brothers Gilbert and John Milroy”
Mushroom Memories – Fungal Foraging!
“Friend Andrew sent me a picture of some Blewits which he and wife Sigrid had foraged on a visit to a friend”
RNLI Kirkwall Gift Shop
The shop is open Monday to Saturday from 11am to 2pm.
The Challenge of Energy Use in Traditional Industrial Buildings
Highland Park Distillery in Kirkwall is 222 years old and trying to make it a more energy efficient building without compromising the quality of the product is quite a balancing act.
Volunteers Transforming Arcadia Park
Arcadia Park is located opposite the new Balfour Hospital in Kirkwall and the space is being transformed.
Animating Alex: #BookWeek
“We hope children will enjoy our micro animations, have a go at writing and maybe even take part in our Flash Fiction competition.”
