“If I’m late putting out the bird food in our garden they land on the fence posts and caw at me!”
Crows… Is Hard
Oxfam and Robert Rendall’s ‘Orkney Shore’
” In this book the autobiographical thread is the indispensable bit of twine round which local nature lore has been crystalized: the records of Orkney marine life from past and present are the sugar candy.” Robert Rendall
More Fun With Limpets!
“I was thinking, again, about children playing with shells in past times”
Lower-mantle blobs may reveal relics of event going back to the Hadean
Three-dimensional rendition of seismic tomography results beneath Africa. Mantle with anomalously low S-wave speeds is show in red, orange and yellow. The faint grey overlay represents the extent of surface continental crust today – Horn of Africa at right and Cape Town at the lower margin – the blue areas near the top are oceanic crust on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea. (Image credit: Mingming Li/ASU)
Almond & Raisin Pilaf (V)
Days are getting warmer, teas are getting lighter
The Dates For The Cairns!!!
After a pause of two years the archaeology dig at The Cairns, Windwick, South Ronaldsay, is set to happen again!!
Lives – Connect
Mike’s mother’s maiden name was Russell – of the shoe making family.
Thumbs Up To The OAS!
The AGM is on Thursday the 26th of May at 7pm and the projected time for the following talk by Martin Carruthers – ‘People of the Broch: Excavating an Iron Age Community at The Cairns, South Ronaldsay’ – is 7.30pm.
Come Away Melinda
“Come away, Melinda/Come in and close the door”
‘Children From The Sky’
“It’s partly an historical novel – albeit an intensely factual one.”
