Hedgehogs…. New Ness Guidebook…. Skull/Sculpture/Stone?.......
by Bernie Bell - 09:42 on 06 April 2023
Hedgehogs….
I haven’t mentioned hedgehogs for a while…..here goes….
I received the following from Hugh Warwick….
“Amazing women!
Some wonderful news for hedgehogs (and hedgehog lovers) everywhere - the truly amazing Megan McCubbin has agreed to step up as a patron of the British Hedgehog Preservation Society. She is an inspirational communicator about the natural world and I have had the pleasure of being interviewed by her many times.
Next - well, she is a little younger but Amelie is amazing. Her dad, Alex, got in touch with me last year to see if I was ever going to be near their Wiltshire home - and whether I could pop into her school - as Amelie is a massive hedgehog fan (and, oh, my ego was boosted to the moon by this, a fan of my books).
By a delightful coincidence I was booked in to do a talk in a village not far from them and was thrilled when they turned up. It was so lovely to meet her … and find out that she is only 10 … there really is hope for the future!
And now, Amelie is up to something … she is raising money for a hedgehog hospital called Prickles and Paws.
So if you can, drop her a bit - it would be amazing to see her meet her goal and then way more!”
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/amelie-huscroft
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New Ness Guidebook….
I quote from the Ness Website…
“We’re delighted to announce that our new Ness of Brodgar guidebooks have arrived and will be available to buy online on Friday.”
‘Nuff said…
https://www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/guidebook-launch/
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Skull/Sculpture/Stone?.......
I saw an intriguing image on the Orkney Wildlife Facebook page… https://www.facebook.com/groups/133013273445588/ and initially thought it was a stone – an exceptionally interesting stone - one of those stones you see on beaches and want to take home with you.
Then I read Fiona’s message and realised that it’s a cetacean skull - with Fiona’s permission – here it is…..
What a beauty – and as someone commented – the trail of limpets ‘walking’ towards it, and over it, adds to it – especially for someone who likes limpets…
https://theorkneynews.scot/2022/05/10/more-fun-with-limpets/
This image put me in mind of some other ‘beach art’ I’ve come across…
https://theorkneynews.scot/2019/08/24/marwick-bay-art-works-well-kind-of/
https://theorkneynews.scot/2022/03/25/a-different-kind-of-rock-art-part-fourteen/
https://theorkneynews.scot/2021/11/20/week-forty-six-one-day-at-a-time/
https://theorkneynews.scot/2021/05/14/warbeth-beach-for-an-airing/
There’s a lot of it about – if you look about you.
I seem to have drifted away from Fiona – here’s her website….
http://www.fionasanderson.com/main/
I mentioned Fiona in a previous piece of writing….
https://theorkneynews.scot/2017/07/09/circles-lines-tales-to-tell-and-roads-to-travel/
Stones – Bones – Shells. Make of them what you will.
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Here’s one I made earlier…. https://theorkneynews.scot/2020/10/23/a-hill-and-a-hall/
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