I’m researching saints for a book I’m writing. Found this gem 🙏😇
In Scotland we've had wildlife on some of our money since 2016 and the country doesn't seem to have fallen
🐭 oops
Noble work! 👏🏻
Yeah just finished the Christmas cake
Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.
Superstar 🥰
Pleased to announce that my good friend Fran Flett Hollinrake will be speaking at this years Symbols of Mortality Conference. Fran will be sharing the story of HMS Royal Oak, sunk by a German U-boat in 1939, and the memorial to those who were lost. @storytellerfran.bsky.social
After weeks of rain we have some sunshine and a sprinkling of snow 💒❄️☀️
The light fitting is over 100 years old, and is part of the huge restoration project undertaken in the early twentieth century. The bulb socket is more modern for safety reasons but you can't see it from the outside. The shade is a cut glass 'pineapple' style, very popular in the 1920s.
A Special Theme Curator Tour with Fran Flett Hollinrake will take place in the cathedral on Sat 7 Feb at 1000: 'The Legacy of War from the Middle Ages to Modern Times'. The tour lasts one hour, costs £15 per person and there is no need to book.
So, @nessbattery.bsky.social. You gave me Reggae Shark; I give you…whatever this is.
Awww, nice one @dannyrobins.bsky.social! A Mastermind champion! You cut it a bit fine but many congratulations 🙌😅
We made it to February! Blessings of Imbolc/Candlemas/St Brigid to everyone 🙌🌞
Great technique, and I look forward to reading your graveyard book! 🪦
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A very happy Burns night, wherever you are. Slàinte mhath! Please excuse the lack of neeps - red cabbage will have to do. I don’t think RB would mind.
Frank likes a bit of Winterwatch
It really opened my eyes! Our Orkney Earl Rognvald travelled to Jerusalem and back - returning by the ‘river route’. Your book showed me how that might have happened ☺️
Wow!
More aurora from Orkney!
And there’s more!!
Got some very red aurora happening in Orkney right now
Great edition of one of my favourite podcasts - featuring the amazing @judithjesch.bsky.social talking about her new translation of the Orkney saga. @stmagnuscathedral.bsky.social gets a few mentions! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/g...
You won’t regret it 😁
Many congratulations! I’m no great expert on all the different editions 😄 but this reads as stories which gets my vote! Bit sad that Thorkell Flayer is now Thorkell Plunderer though 😉 #Flettpride
Back-to-back Viking goodness. I loved @judithjesch.bsky.social’s new reworking of the Orkneyinga Saga - a great Introduction, excellent references, and very readable! Then @catjarman.bsky.social’s amazing River Kings - what a ride, what a journey! That little carnelian bead has my heart. 🥰
And also mine 🥰
Let’s not tell him
My cat is an absence of light
