The 4,000 year old Corrimony Cairn is what is known as a Clava Style of cairn. It consists of a circular structure piled high with carefully placed stones. Around its outside are standing stones.
Corrimony Chambered Cairn, Glen Urquhart
Right to be Human: Scottish Storytelling Festival 2023
Tickets are now on sale for the Scottish Storytelling Festival which take place from 13-29 October 2023.
Royal Mail Post Boxes, 15 #Orkney
Celebrating our rural Post Boxes
Big Butterfly Count Results 2023
Scotch Argus VULNERABLE image credit: Tim Melling One of the species which has declined in Scotland
Walking Orkney: Up Brinkie’s Brae
A walk of panoramic views and stone walls.
Symphonies of Galaxies #OISF
Astronomy is one of the rich mix of influences on the Scottish composer Eddie McGuire, in conversation with astronomer Dr Anne-Marie Weijmans and trumpeter and conductor Bede Williams, both from St Andrews University.
My SF Part 2: Space, SF and Music
‘Proud Guns to the Sea’, Analog, January 1973, was based on the ballad Henry Martin, quoting it in the title, and included a planet called Hallway, lifted from the 8th century Irish Donal Óg
M*A*S*H #OnThisDay
On 17th of September 1972 the TV comedy series “M*A*S*H”, adapted from the movie, starring Alan Alda, Loretta Swit, Wayne Rogers, and McLean Stevenson was first shown on CBS in the US.
Royal Mail Post Boxes, 14 #Orkney
Celebrating our rural Post Boxes
Farming’s Past for the Future #OISF
Two talks which featured our farming heritage with a link to both the climate change emergency and our food security were: ‘The Lost Flock of St Kilda’ and ‘Make it with Oats, and try it with Bere’.
