Fossils….Fossil fuel replacement?..... Brochs……& Summer Grub…
by Bernie Bell - 09:22 on 30 July 2022
Mainly fossiliferous…..
Look at this….just…look at it!!!!!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-62336876
They found some bits of Ichthyosaur – there’s a whole one in the Fossil & Heritage Centre, Burray…..
https://theorkneynews.scot/2019/08/16/the-fossil-heritage-centre-burray-exactly-what-it-says-it-is/
I likes fossils – I gets excited about them. Life from deep time.
Mike likes them too….
Fossil
By Mike Bell
Lying on the sea shore
A piece of sea-worn old sea shore
Once mud, alive with ancient bivalves
A productive bed
Now a shell cemetery
A jumble of interlocking curves and spirals in banded cross-section
Silky smooth sedimentary rock
With the shades of grey of original mud
It fits in my palm
The roughly oval shape of an egg that’s been sat upon
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Down down deeper and down….
‘Nowt to do wi’ Status Quo….
I watched a ‘60’s Sci-fi film ( ‘60’s Sci-fi - so near yet so far…) called ‘Crack in the World’. It’s about what happens when, and I quote…. “A plan to provide Earth with unlimited free geothermal energy goes catastrophically wrong.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crack_in_the_World
And I thought hmmmm - fracking…drilling…detonating…deeper and deeper…
https://theorkneynews.scot/2019/05/07/deep-down-fracking/
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I haven’t mentioned brochs for a bit…. https://twitter.com/TheBrochProject/status/1552713028155723776?cxt=HHwWgMC-lbiRrIwrAAAA
Mike built a broch!!! https://theorkneynews.scot/2022/04/09/the-broch-of-gorseness-as-it-stands/
In for a penny…in for a pound…. https://theorkneynews.scot/?s=Brochs
The Caithness Broch Project calendar for next year is available – https://www.thebrochproject.co.uk/shop/product/caithness-2023-calendar/. We alternate between the CBP and the Orkney Archaeology Society – it’s the turn of the CBP this year, but I refuse to order a calendar until at least September!!!
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Here’s one I made earlier….. ‘nowt to do wi’ fossils…..or brochs…. just summer eating….. https://theorkneynews.scot/2022/05/09/almond-raisin-pilaf-v/
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