A walk to skirt the town.
Continuing Trend of Excess Deaths in Scotland
The provisional total number of deaths registered in Scotland in week 24 of 2023 (12th of June to 18th June) was 1,156 (113 or 11% above the 5-year average)
Weather Forecast: Mainly Dry with some Sunshine
Most places will be dry with clouds breaking at times to give some sunshine. Light southwesterly breeze. Maximum temperature 17 °C. Image taken 11.10pm June 21st 2023
Orkney’s Lieutenant Joe Gregg: Troop Commander
“It is probably the most rewarding thing I have ever done”
Human Rights : Basic Freedoms for All
“To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.” – Nelson Mandela, South African civil rights activist
Of Shetland Ponies: A 19thC Visit to Shetland
“The peasant still employs them for carting peat and occasionally they may be met with attached to a lady’s phaeton.”
Occasional Rain
“We need to trust and empower people. Be bold, proud, gallus. Actually become the people we tell the world we are.”
Weather Forecast: Mostly Dry Becoming Brighter
Orkney will be mostly dry and becoming brighter with some afternoon sunshine and perhaps an isolated shower. Remaining mild with light winds. Maximum temperature 18 °C.
Sgathaich: The Legend of Zelda, Tears of the Kingdom
“A strange gloom has been leaking out from beneath Hyrule Castle which on contact drains the life from people.”
Midsummer Madness 1948
“Everything dissolves into moonlight, and the moonlight is enchantment made visible. And O! what moon-silvered phrases drop, in shivering ecstasy, from the lips of fairies and mortals! “