TOMORROW! TOMORROW! TOMORROW!.....Swandro Close-ups…….‘The Corner of Loveliness’….. From ’Unbound’……
by Bernie Bell - 09:00 on 21 July 2023
TOMORROW! TOMORROW! TOMORROW!.....
Skaill Farm Dig Open Day……
https://archaeologyorkney.com/2023/07/20/skaill-open-day-2023/
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Swandro Close-ups…
https://www.swandro.co.uk/post/ready-for-its-closeup-now
……and there are some truly crackin’ close ups!
I love it when folk use references I recognize – I presume that Caz is referring to Gloria Swanson‘s line when playing the deranged Norma Desmond in the 1950 classic movie ‘Sunset Boulevard’?.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMTT0LW0M_Y
Back to archaeology…..
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‘The Corner of Loveliness’…..
….lives up to its name…..
https://www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/2023-day-13/
I covet that lump of haematite – just – LOOK AT IT! There’s a lump of haematite in The Orkney Museum Ness exhibition …
http://www.spanglefish.com/berniesblog/blog.asp?blogid=16389
…but it’s not as shiny shiny shiny as the most recent find - with its iridescent rainbow colours….
I won’t burst into my Trench T song – this time……
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From ’Unbound’……
"Douglas Adams like you've never seen him
Coming in August - when Douglas Adams died in 2001, he left behind 60 boxes full of notebooks, letters, scripts, jokes, speeches and even poems. In 42, compiled by Douglas’s long-time collaborator Kevin Jon Davies, hundreds of these personal artefacts appear in print for the very first time.
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Here’s one I made earlier…. https://theorkneynews.scot/2022/04/29/i-think-therefore-i-am-rene-descartes/
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