Maps……Something’s Gotta Change….
by Bernie Bell - 08:58 on 28 March 2024
Maps……
A map is A GOOD THING!
On Tuesday we went to the Hatston Industrial Estate, Kirkwall, mainly to get me a new waterproof coat and a handle for the toilet cistern which we’d temporarily replaced with a monkey-wrench – functional, but far from ideal!
The Hatston Estate is A GOOD THING – just about any kind of functional, practical thing you need can be found there. We’ve been to Birsay Farmers many times, but can never find it! Mike had a brain-wave, ‘Googled’ and printed out a map of the Hatston Estate which showed what the different outlets sell. We took this with us, found Birsay Farmers no problem and I got an excellent waterproof, windproof, breathable coat with lots of pockets. I like to have pockets for my ‘finds’.
Then we tried one Plumber’s suppliers, but we would have had to order a handle and we needed one asap. The helpful lass said to try William Wilson’s, so we drove as directed – could see the building, but couldn’t find an entrance. Eventually we worked out that - by driving right along to the end of the road, turning left, then driving back again – we’d get there. We did so – got a handle – mission accomplished.
We were talking of how the map had been a boon but that, even with a map, the Hatston Estate is still something like a Medieval City, with its maze of roads, by-roads, dead-ends, angles and corners in unlikely places.
Industrial Estates are usually more formal in plan – laid out along ancient Roman lines.
Which do I prefer? For efficiency - the Roman grid-pattern. For the human touch - a bit of jumbleiness.
I suppose the solution is….. jumble, with a map!
And there, in among it all is a mound dating from the Iron Age, the Grain Earth House….
http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/earth-houses/grain.htm
This may have been part of a ’map’ of ancient Orkney – a place marker for the people of that time. It’s good that it has survived the development of the Industrial Estate. Where exactly is it? I can’t possibly tell you!
https://theorkneynews.scot/2020/05/26/maps-ancient-modern-and-in-between/
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Something’s Gotta Change…
I suggest that that something, should be who we are Governed by….
For if the Tweet disappears…
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