Around The Bay…..Fireworks…..The Rock….. Unusual Interpretations….
by Bernie Bell - 10:06 on 06 November 2022
Around The Bay…..
I previously included a very informative item from the Ness of Brodgar blog in one of my blog posts…..
http://www.spanglefish.com/berniesblog/blog.asp?blogid=15976
And now there is a follow up about the settlement on Wideford Hill – I’ll leave it to Sigurd to tell the tale…..
https://www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/wideford-hill-settlement/
As usual, here’s my tuppenceworth…. https://theorkneynews.scot/2021/12/28/on-christmas-day-on-christmas-day/
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Fireworks….
If you have experienced a negative incident involving fireworks…please complete this RSPCA survey….
https://www.rspca.org.uk/getinvolved/campaign/fireworks/survey
Thank you
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The Rock…..
This is simply……ace….. https://theorkneynews.scot/2022/11/05/the-adventures-of-a-stromness-rock/
What a great idea!
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Unusual Interpretations….
We watched a film – ‘The Personal History of David Copperfield’ directed by Armando Iannucci…. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6439020/
It was OK – an easy thing to watch on a Saturday evening, but it played a wee bit fast and loose with the actual story. I accept that films often do that - when I first saw the ’Lord of the Rings’ films I was furious!
I was pleased that at the end the credits said ‘Based on a novel by Charles Dickens.’ Fair enough.
But it reminded me of how original works can be mis-represented in films or television adaptations.
Mike was in Rochester some years ago – a town which could be labelled ‘Great Expectations-Land’ and he saw a bridal-wear shop called ‘Miss Haversham’s' – someone didn’t do their research – someone really didn’t do their research! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Havisham
At a bit of a tangent - I was then thinking about the room that Miss Haversham was festering in, which, in David Lean's 1946 film adaptation was full of cobwebs. I was thinking – our house is full of spiders, and their cobwebs, which I don’t mind – but they do shit on things – ruined a pair of suede shoes…
Wellies Slippers & Crocs
Wellies Slippers & Crocs,
That’s what I wear on my feet these days.
I go for walks, am in the garden, and in the house.
The rest of my shoes gather dust in the wardrobe
Dust – and spider shit.
I didn’t know that spiders - shit.
My shoes usually get worn more often.
But they do, of course they do -
Shit, that is.
To quote a lady from Shetland I met on my way back from hospital in Inverness…
“You got to eat – if you don’t eat – you don’t shit – and if you don’t shit – you die.”
So, I wear Wellies Slippers and Crocs
And……check my shoes for spider shit!
BB January 2022
That room of Miss Haversham’s must have been knee-deep in spider shit too.
Maybe I dwell too much on practicalities.
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Here’s one I made earlier….. https://theorkneynews.scot/2019/04/13/the-pit-the-wasteland/
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