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Trees - Matter…… Ness of Brodgar Updates Continue…. From ‘Unbound’….

by Bernie Bell - 10:07 on 01 October 2023

 

Trees - Matter….

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/28/famous-sycamore-gap-tree-at-hadrians-wall-found-apparently-cut-down

What is wrong with people? 

I believe that something has gone awry in the collective psyche of humanity.

Words of wisdom from Mr. Mac…

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/29/sycamore-gap-tree-attack-is-part-of-war-on-nature-in-uk-says-poet

On Thursday evening we watched ‘Susan Calman’s Grand Day Out’ in which Susan visited Mrs. Tiggywinkles animal rescue centre…

https://www.sttiggywinkles.org.uk/

….where she helped to feed some baby bats which had been rescued when their tree was cut down.

My tuppenceworths….

https://theorkneynews.scot/2021/12/23/trees-matter/

And….

https://theorkneynews.scot/2018/03/19/the-triumph-of-optimism-over-experience-or-attempting-to-grow-trees-in-orkney/

By the by – many of the little trees in our garden which have been little for some years, suddenly, this year, put on a spurt of growth – maybe they know something?

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Ness of Brodgar Updates Continue…

Structure 5 and the Great Wall…..

https://www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/updates-continue/

My tuppenceworth….

http://www.spanglefish.com/berniesblog/blog.asp?blogid=16429

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Here’s one I made earlier…. https://theorkneynews.scot/2022/01/07/from-israel-to-stonehenge-via-brodgar/

 


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