On 21st of June 1919 the German High Seas Fleet was scuttled in Scapa Flow, Orkney
‘Paragraph Eleven Confirm’ #OnThisDay
Stromness Book Shop: Scotland’s Only Drive-In Book Shop
“Before it was a bookshop the premises were part of Stockan’s bakery. Before that the tiny building was a tea shop, a painters and a grocers.”
Housing Development Gets Go Ahead in Greenfield, St Andrews
A development of 16 houses is to go ahead in Toab, twice the recommended density for the area.
Orkney Stands Wae Black Lives Matter: Poster Download
Two Orcadian women, artist Fiona MacInnes and Kelly Marwick have collaborated to produce a poster for the campaign Black Lives Matter in Orkney.
Poetry Corner: Suffolk Solstice
The procession slips across the meadow/senses acute to birdsong,
Driving with the Brakes On
“Because poultry welfare standards are significantly worse in America than in the EU (bird cages are 28% smaller, for example) chicken carcasses are washed with chlorine dioxide.”
Blended Schooling “undeliverable and impossible for us to put into practice” in Orkney
“With the resources available to us, we calculate that the majority of our children and young people would be at school for two days a week at best.”
Book review: ‘How Scotland Lost Her Parliament and what came of it’ by Charles Waddie, 1891.
Review of ‘How Scotland Lost Her Parliament and what came of it’ by Charles Waddie, 1891, available now on the Random Scottish History website.
Every Action Counts: World Refugee Day
“Nearly 80 million women, children and men around the world have been forced from their homes as refugees or internally displaced people.”
Funky Face Masks!
“A face mask doesn’t have to be dreary – I wanted something which was cheery – and, something to do with me.”
