All Out Of Darkness We Have Light…..OAS Review Back-numbers To Download…..
by Bernie Bell - 07:45 on 14 December 2022
All Out Of Darkness We Have Light…..
Robert MacFarlane has been working with some folk to produce an adaptation of ‘The Dark Is Rising’ by Susan Cooper…. https://twitter.com/hashtag/TheDarkIsRising?src=hashtag_click . It looks like he’s weaving spells again.
At this time of increasing darkness in the ways of the world, and when we are nearing the shortest day and the return the light in the Northern Hemisphere, the ideas in these books strike a chord with me. I haven’t read them - had never heard of them - but we’ve ordered them from our local independent bookshop…
https://theorkneynews.scot/2020/06/21/stromness-book-shop-scotlands-only-drive-in-book-shop/ …and when they arrive I’ll prepare to step into another world. At just the right time too….
Mr. Mac has also been communing with the ancestors….https://twitter.com/RobGMacfarlane/status/1602581257229139969?cxt=HHwWgoC8jbTKwb0sAAAA
And with himself….. https://twitter.com/RobGMacfarlane/status/1602018987906416640?cxt=HHwWgIC-mYPywbssAAAA
On the subject of hand-axes…. https://www.wob.com/en-gb/books/mark-edmonds/langdales/9780752432380
https://theorkneynews.scot/2017/07/24/conversations-with-magic-stones/
The world is full of wonders – and light…..
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OAS Review Back-Numbers To Download…..
These Reviews date from before the Orkney Archaeology Society decided to publish their Annual Review in book form. OAS have generously decided to make them downloadable for free. Interesting reading, covering a wide variety of excavations, interpretations and ruminations….
https://orkneyarchaeologysociety.org.uk/old-reviews-free-to-download/
Back-copies of the Review in book form can be purchased from the OAS on-line shop…….
https://shop.orkneyarchaeologysociety.org.uk/product-category/books/
As can the OAS Calendar for 2023 – along with other good things….. https://shop.orkneyarchaeologysociety.org.uk/
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Here’s one I made earlier…… https://theorkneynews.scot/2019/10/20/kristyn-clestrain-and-the-inuksuk/
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