Patrick Stewart, whose father Robert was the son of King James V and Euphemia Elphinstone, had inherited the title Earl of Orkney.
The Would Be Prince
Transport & Transition to Net Zero
“”transport is now the highest emitting sector in Scotland, responsible for roughly 36% of greenhouse gas emissions in 2018. Emissions are largely unchanged on 1990 levels.”
Boris Johnson – 1 Year On
Over 14 million already in poverty, 1.6million used food banks last year, and the impact of Brexit is still to come.
The McNeills of Holm
“ we lived in an eerie borderland between the seen and the unseen worlds” F.M. McNeill
Civil Disobedience in Stromness
“the inhabitants of Stromness did resolve to assert their natural liberties and therefore did refuse any longer to submit to this imposition”
Civil Disobedience in Stenness
‘These immense blocks of stone stood around the pirate in the grey light of the dawning, like the phantom forms of antediluvian giants.’ Sir Walter Scott
Book Review: Churchill’s Prisoners
The Italians in Orkney 1941 – 1944 written by James MacDonald
Testing Times
‘“At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful.”
Music Maks A’ The Differ Tae Life
“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy” (Beethoven)
Contact Tracing – Cutting the Engine of the Pandemic
“It is essential to cut the engine of the pandemic at its source: separate healthy people from suspected and probable cases.”Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge
