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Nicky Getgood

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Postgrad #arthistory & #creativewriting OU student. #Hyperlocal veteran. Scribbler. Lucky Orkney ferry-louper. Mum and Museum Custodian. Getgood on 🧡 πŸ“· too πŸ΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ ΏπŸŽ¨πŸ“šπŸ›πŸ–Œ

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Normalise admitting you don't know enough about a subject to form an opinion of it.

10.10.2025 14:16 β€” πŸ‘ 203    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 0

@podsavetheuk.crooked.com β€œthis is a podcast about what’s wrong with the uk, not what’s wrong with their butts!” Ten year old Robin didn’t dig the diarrhoea/diarrhea discussion. πŸ’© #podsavetheuk

11.10.2025 09:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ten out of ten to that cat 🐾

10.10.2025 11:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

🐘 πŸ’©

10.10.2025 07:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜It’s more than a pretty backdrop’: crime writer Ann Cleeves on the magic of Orkney in Scotland With her latest book, the author moves detective Jimmy Perez from Shetland to Orkney, where she was inspired by the deep history, huge skies and warm people

A lovely piece about Orkney www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

07.10.2025 07:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#MementoMoriMonday ☠️

πŸ“St Laurence's Church β€’ Ludlow β›ͺ

#History

06.10.2025 20:41 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bronze age gold jewellery stolen in raid on St Fagans museum in Cardiff South Wales police issue public appeal for information after burglary at one of Wales’s most beloved museums

It’s a bad news day for museums and heritage today 😿 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

06.10.2025 18:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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National Trust cuts 500 full-time posts - Museums Association Charity says a third of job losses will come from compulsory redundancies

News | National Trust cuts 500 full-time posts

Charity says a third of job losses will come from compulsory redundancies.

06.10.2025 08:34 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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South London squirrels after different kind of stash If they are not launching themselves at you in drug-fuelled desperation, their bloodshot eyes are searching for their next fix, pink paws scrabbling in the ground.

β€œThey used to hang out in the little park in front of the Ritzy, twitching ... dancing to music only they could hear and generally creating a malevolent ambience.” 🐿️
www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/oct/...

28.09.2025 21:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Orcadians! The Spy in Black is available to watch on itvx! πŸ“Ί www.itv.com/watch/the-sp...

26.09.2025 21:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ›

25.09.2025 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#WallsOnWednesday #NoIdea

25.09.2025 08:42 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Can’t explain it but of course they want to take away one of the only painkillers that’s safe for pregnancy, a condition that causes weird and unusual pains. these people WANT pregnancy to be a punishment and handicap. they want to control.

23.09.2025 09:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1001    πŸ” 255    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 10
Lanes

Lanes

🎳

23.09.2025 10:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
An image captured from THE FINISHING LINE (1977)

An image captured from THE FINISHING LINE (1977)

THE FINISHING LINE (1977) | https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-the-finishing-line-1977-online

21.09.2025 17:51 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Rowan entered some Ring of Brodgar cupcakes in the Orkney Food and Drink Festival Bakery Off competition judged by #gbbo 2023 winner Matty Edgell. He sadly didn’t win but the competition was fierce! 🧁

21.09.2025 14:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
View from the boat

View from the boat

Shoogly Holm mooring

Shoogly Holm mooring

Ceramic pieces in the mooring

Ceramic pieces in the mooring

Sea life

Sea life

Snorkelling to the #ShooglyHolm underwater sea-life hotel! 🀿

ℹ️: tinyurl.com/3kzbrpjp
πŸ“· by Karen Boswarva & Katy Firth

(@creativescots.bsky.social, @jpopstudios.bsky.social & @artecology-iw.bsky.social )

21.09.2025 08:33 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A garden hedge in the front garden of a London terrace house that's been shaped like a cartoon caterpillar, complete with two giant antenna.

A garden hedge in the front garden of a London terrace house that's been shaped like a cartoon caterpillar, complete with two giant antenna.

Same hedge, different angle, love this thing. Looks like it's chomping on things.

Same hedge, different angle, love this thing. Looks like it's chomping on things.

Anyhow I saw the best garden hedge in London today A+++ no regrets

20.09.2025 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 473    πŸ” 116    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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1813 a Great Auk killed at Papa Westray, Orkney, the penultimate Great Auk record for Britain. Which Miss Traill was kind enough to send Mr. Bullock the specimen for his London Museum?

www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/wor...

20.09.2025 11:53 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Foreign Butterflies πŸ¦‹ from the Naturalist’s Library, entomology volume V.

20.09.2025 17:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Spotted the big man in Cardiff today πŸ‘€

18.09.2025 20:40 β€” πŸ‘ 53    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1
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Illustration of The Fertilisation of Egypt by Erasmus Darwin.

18.09.2025 09:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
WAHEY! It's Buddo, the Neolithic whalebone figurine from Orkney!!!

WAHEY! It's Buddo, the Neolithic whalebone figurine from Orkney!!!

Buddo says you're nearly home & dry.

17.09.2025 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
This is fine, but Keir Starmer surrounded by violent, foreign money funded bigots waving flags

This is fine, but Keir Starmer surrounded by violent, foreign money funded bigots waving flags

Hat tip @clownf1st.bsky.social

13.09.2025 21:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2266    πŸ” 856    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 23
WAHEY!!! It's Buddo, the Neolithic whalebone figurine from Orkney!!

WAHEY!!! It's Buddo, the Neolithic whalebone figurine from Orkney!!

Buddo says you're nearly home & dry.

11.09.2025 15:11 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ‘‰ Mammoth Hog πŸ‘ˆ

10.09.2025 08:15 β€” πŸ‘ 449    πŸ” 71    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 5
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The sun was shining @nessbattery.bsky.social this morning β˜€οΈ

09.09.2025 12:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A Japanese art inspired illustration showing a figure curled up on a blue and white mattress. The paper has a red signature in the bottom left corner

A Japanese art inspired illustration showing a figure curled up on a blue and white mattress. The paper has a red signature in the bottom left corner

When you did have plans for Sunday, but oh no, heavy rain and thunderstorms all day, we'll have to go read in bed.... πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ
πŸ‘πŸ›οΈπŸ‘ #MuseumBums

"Nue Couchèe (Reclining Nude)", nd, by Charles Emile Egli, at the V&A 😁

07.09.2025 08:35 β€” πŸ‘ 123    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pong at the Orkney Wireless Museum.

06.09.2025 19:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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