On the 11th of July 1877, Kate Edger graduated with a BA in Latin and Mathematics from the University of New Zealand.
Kate Edger #OnThisDay
In Orkney 75.9% of adults have received their first dose of #Covid Vaccine
In Scotland 2,608,831 people have had their first dose of the vaccine – 57.4%
Magnetic reversal and demise of the Neanderthals?
“Combined with the highly precise growth-ring dating, the climatic changes over the 1700 year lifetime of the kauri tree can be linked to other records of environmental change. “
#Covid19 Vaccine – Uncertain Global Access
Scotland has 130,650 doses available for delivery (as of 16th December) with 50% of those having to be retained as all those vaccinated require 2 doses
Comparisons? Choices?
“There’s lots of things we’ve learned about COVID and just that flexibility of people working from home – the productivity that can be driven out of that.”
Care Home Deaths in Scotland Over 59% of Total
The weekly figures published by the NRS as at the 3rd of May show a continued shift from deaths in hospital to those in care homes.
Care Home Deaths in Scotland Continue at a Shocking Level #Covid19 #Coronavirus
The message to the citizens of Scotland today, 22nd of April, is to continue to stay at home except for essential supplies of food and medicine and to observe social distancing.
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
Accommodation Wanted: Can You Help Colin & Catherine?
My artist husband, Colin Gibbs, and I live in New Zealand. We are seeking a place to stay in Orkney, for around three weeks in August this year, to help and to paint
Poetry Corner: On Being Hackneyed and Trite In The Industry of Death
What is left to say……..
