“I am now visiting a personal trainer, to get my muscles into shape ready for the Scillies in June”
Update: Phil’s Walk for Christine
Grants Available from Action Earth Encouraging Active Communities
Grants of up to £500 are available for any group of volunteers in Scotland carrying out practical environmental improvements and wildlife habitat creation
Poetry Corner:Beauty and Beauty
“When Beauty and Beauty meet/ All naked, fair to fair,”
The Trap Dykes of Stromness: Part 1
“At very low tides it can be traced outwards for about a hundred yards continuously; but it looks more picturesque at about half tide”
Deleting Compassion in Society: The Rape Clause
“I always thought the tories were bad – but – this makes everything that they have ever done before look like a picnic in the park.”
Poi Faosst: Ywen Craube Reveals All
The competition in Orkney is thought to be the first of its kind in the Western World.
Farming Matters: Easter Rising, A Long Goodbye
“I believe that promises over repatriation of farming and fishing will not be fulfilled”
Parliament Agrees to a General Election June 8th
2015 saw Alistair Carmichael’s majority cut from 9,928 to 817 down by 20.6%.
Bernie Bell: Orkney Walks (With Stories) – Happy Valley
Happy Valley was one man’s vision of what he could, working with Nature, realise when a sheltered vale gave him the opportunity.
Equality in Schools for LGBTI Students Under Review
A review is to take place looking at the educational experience of LGBTI students in Scottish schools.
