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Somebody on another platform is #cycletouring Britain ticking off millennium mileposts. He's heading to #orkney now and trying to track down if the three indicated on thie map ever existed. Does anyone have any info or old pictures?

#milleniummilepost #sustrans #BikeTooter #orkneyislands #stromness #kirkwall #burwick

Map of Orkney with presumed location of Sustrans millennium mileposts

Stromness. Indian Ink and White Chalk on Brown Paper. A sketch I did as a youngster, when I first visited Orkney at the age of 19, and started a life-long love affair with these islands.
#scottishart #scottishartist #orkney #stromness #drawing #penandink #islands #mentalhealth #art #landscape #scotland

To #storytelling ... to #stories ...

Tom Muir (who was the first to teach me about #Selkies, the #Orkney tides, Skipi Geo, and take me round the #islands) is awarded an MBE "for services to Orkney folk tales."

https://orcadian.co.uk/three-recognised-in-new-year-honours-list/

#story #tale #oral #oralTradition #Stromness #lore

There's nowhere quite like Stromness in Orkney. It stretches for over a mile along the shore of Hamnavoe, an inlet of Scapa Flow. The core of the town is a main street that twists and turns between the shoreline and the hillside behind. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/stromness/stromness/index.html
#Scotland #Orkney #Stromness #WestMainland #UndiscoveredScotland

There's nowhere quite like Stromness in Orkney. The image shows Stromness built on rising ground beyond its harbour, with fishing boats moored in the foreground. The buildings are mainly of stone or finished in white and the scene is in sunlight.

The pier at Stromness in Orkney, on the shore of Hamnavoe, an inlet of Scapa Flow. The background view is of the islands of Graemsay (at low level) and Hoy (at higher level). More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/stromness/stromness/index.html

#Scotland #Stromness #Orkney #Harbour #Hamnavoe #UndiscoveredScotland

The pier at Stromness in Orkney. The image shows the pier entering the lower left of the frame and curving around to the right. Numerous boats are moored to the pier, mostly facing the viewer. One of them is a lifeboat. In the background are two levels of land, a low island and a rather higher one beyond it. The sky is blue.

Stromness harbour around and after sunrise this morning. Why did I wake up before 6am?

* Looking across to the mountains on Hoy
* Rowing boat in the mist
* Main pier with misty houses behind
* Golden light from the sunrise on ripples from the outgoing ferry

#Orkney #Scotland #UK #Landscape #Photography #Stromness

Looking out across a wide channel to distant mountains, their peaks wreathed in cloud. It's just after sunrise

A rowing boat gently bobbing on ripples from an outgoing boat. It's misty and tinged with blue because the sunrise is happening somewhere behind thick clouds on the horizon

Two large boats tied up to a pier. Behind them, mist clings around the roofs of low houses, and in the distance a cellphone toward stands at the top of a low hill with warm sunrise skies behind

Bright golden light and dark shadows across rippling water, with an even brighter distorted sun visible near the upper left corner

Funny #signs on the *very* narrow high street of the town of #Stromness , seen while waiting for the ferry. The fourth sign... well, the jokes just write themselves.
#Orkney #Scotland

Had a lovely week in Orkney with @GrahamCampbell to celebrate our 10th anniversary! We met in Orkney a little over 10 years ago - back then we camped in this spot next to the Hoy Sound, but I'm glad to have stayed somewhere more windproof this time around 🥰

#Orkney #Stromness #Scotland #Scottish

A photo taken from just above ground level of a couple facing away, holding hands, looking across a narrow passage of sea (the Hoy Sound) towards an island (Hoy) with a couple of hills on it. There is grass in the foreground; another, flat, island (Graemsay) to the left; and a rockier section with an old lookout and shed to the right of the couple. The couple are a woman on the left wearing a bright green raincoat and a man on the right wearing a bright blue raincoat with navy shoulders and sleeves.

Thanks to those that came to the #film premiere of Dimittit In Artes in #Stromness last night. It seems to have gone down well and left people thinking.

Anyone know any film distributers?! IMO an art film like this would be perfect for #Mubi but they don't accept unsolicited submissions...

#Ovid #Mastoart #artist

Vernon Bradley and Magnus Erlendsson sitting either side of one of Vernon's paintings. The whole image is textured like the painting. Quote from Ovid says "And he sent forth his mind to unknown arts."

Vernon Bradley: Dimittit In Artes is premiering at #Stromness Community Centre in #Orkney tomorrow at 7.30. Tickets £5 on the door. Not suitable for children.

Vernon Bradley thinks this #film is about him, but for me it's about #Ovid.

#mastoart #metamorphoses

Monochrome still frame from Dimittit In Artes with a man in a skull mask and beret sitting in a dark wet shed surrounded by flames.

Lesley Riddoch is bringing her latest film 'Denmark, The State Of Happiness' along with a Q&A to:

• #Elgin on Thu 11/4
• #Arran on Fri 26/4
• #WestKilbride on Sun 28/4
• #Musselburgh on Thu 2/5
• #Stromness on Mon 27/5
• #Lerwick on Tue 28/5

https://lesleyriddoch.com/events

Screenshot from start of 'Denmark, The State of Happiness' with the title overlaying an aerial view of a town (Copenhagen?)

NHS's consultants NORR recommend planting trees and a wildflower patch despite #Stromness surgery already having a wildflower patch and the wall has apple trees and herbs planted along it and a sign that says what it is.
From the planing application description of the sight it looks very like what you would see from Google Street view which was last updated in this part of #Orkney in 2009.
So it looks like 8 years of work by community volunteers is going to be undone by "planning by Google".

Apple trees and herbs in Stromness Surgery garden

There's nowhere quite like Stromness in Orkney. It stretches for over a mile along the shore of Hamnavoe, an inlet of Scapa Flow. The core of the town is a main street that twists and turns between the shoreline and the hillside behind. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/stromness/stromness/index.html

#Scotland #Orkney #Stromness #WestMainland #UndiscoveredScotland

If you're near #Stromness get along to @fionaorkneynews #BookWeek book launch exhibition at Northlight gallery.

With lovely straw dollies by Sue Knowles for sale, raising funds for ORSAS.

The #exhibition includes some #pencil #illustration by me, historic photographs, and other information about this industry which many working women in #Orkney depended upon until the #industrialrevolution killed it off.

Exhibition ends on St. Andrew's #FairSaturday

#womensstudies #history #mastoart

The Strawplaiters of Orkney, exhibition at Northlight gallery until Fair Saturday 25th November. Poster with cover illustration of a strawplaiter at work.

A "trow" or goblin-like creature with green hair, yellow skin and red eyes, holding up a flackie, or straw mat. Coloured pencil drawing.

The showers are worth it when they can produce a #rainbow like this!
#Stromness #Orkney

A full rainbow extends across Stromness Harbour.

Nice to get a visit from some #waxwings in the garden in #Stromness.
They're bonny wee birds.

A brightly coloured waxwing sitting on a fencepost.

Stomness: City of the future. 😀
If we could only sort the ferries!
#Stromness #orkney

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv2k21xwk2eo

A wee seal keeping his flippers dry on a high rock!
#Stromness #Orkney

A young seal is pulled up on a tall rock in Stromness harbour. The shore houses can be seen in the background.

#OnThisDay #NorthWallsAndBrims 18 September 1879 William Groundwater and Ann Ward married in #Stromness, #Orkney, though both lived in Walls, William farmed Mucklehouse (aka Ore) and Ann lived at Summer Cleary. In 1880 they had girl #triplets who died soon after birth. They later had four sons who lived to adulthood. William died in 1920 aged 79 and Ann in 1924 aged 81, both in North Walls. #OnePlaceStudy #OnePlaceStudies10 #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

I’m a nerd but couldn’t resist. On Wednesday I went here as I listened. I was in pieces. #music #stromness #holiday #scotland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuWk_3Dlfio

#Stromness

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