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Tag Archives: Skara Brae
Mid-March Musings
I am now a qualified lifeguard. Well, more accurately, I have a lifeguard qualification. I am not currently “practising” as a lifeguard, not yet being paid to guard life as it were. In my last post, I used the term … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Personal experience
Tagged coronavirus, COVID-19, Gaelic, Germany, James Bond, life, lifeguarding, Passengers, RLSS, self-isolating, September, Skara Brae, vauxhall corsa
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Orfeo
Sixty mile an hour gusts subsided; it was time to reopen the village. First, however, I would be consigned to the till, and stock reshuffling – replenishing puffin fledglings from a partially barren wicker basket and depositing fresh ova in … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, Life, Music
Tagged art, bird-scaring rattle, Brodgar, drone, harmonium, life, Neolithic, Norn, Orfeo, Orkney, Skaill, Skara Brae, Tolkien, Vikings, work
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1979
I do not mean our political and civil liberties. They will endure. […] The threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways. It is a crisis of confidence. It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Personal experience, Politics
Tagged 1979, 20th Century Women, feminism, history, HyperNormalisation, Ian Curtis, Jimmy Carter, Joy Division, life, Neolithic, Scotland, Skara Brae, work
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