Ship O’ Fools - Part Two…..’Flint’…...Hmmmm……
by Bernie Bell - 07:25 on 13 September 2024
Ship O’ Fools - Part Two…..
After viewing the ‘Earthbound Orkney‘ exhibition….
http://www.spanglefish.com/berniesblog/blog.asp?blogid=17008
……..on the way out of the building – Ami Robb’s ‘Sugar Kelp/Kombu Kin
Saccharina Latissima. Sugar Kelp waxed liner thread.’
Glowing, like amber.
And then, through the black metal gates at the side of the building to see Robinson R.R.’s ‘Hakon’ in the yard of the Ship O’ Fools….
http://www.spanglefish.com/berniesblog/blog.asp?blogid=16856
Again, a series of images presents it to best advantage…
A tiny leaf had got caught on the base of the sculpture – I just likes it…
‘Flint’….
Another ace publication from one of The People of The Ness – Jo Bourne…..
https://www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/flint-book-launch/
We used to live in Suffolk, where flint abounds and can be seen in the walls of many buildings. Here in Orkney – it’s hard to find, and its presence raises questions of where it travelled from - whether carried here by Plate Tectonics, glaciers...........or humans.....
In ‘The Stonebook Quartet’ – in the first book – ‘The Stone Book’ – Alan Garner writes….
“Mary cried out. It was wonderful. Father had polished the stone. It was black and full of light, and its heart was a golden, bursting sun.
‘What is it?’ said Mary.
'Ask the parson‘ said Father.
‘But what is it really?’
‘I can’t tell you’, said Father. ‘ Once, when I was prenticed, we had us a holiday, and I walked to the sea. I left home at two in the morning. I had nothing but half an hour there. And I stood and watched all that water, and all the weeds and shells and creatures; and then I walked back again. And I’ve seen the like of what’s in that pebble only in the sea. They call them urchins. Now you tell me how that urchin got in that flint, and how that flint got on that hill.”
Its hardness led to terms such as describing someone as being flinty-hearted.
Still has sharp edges thousands of years after being knapped.
Weird stuff.
I decided to bung this in too....
https://theorkneynews.scot/2017/07/24/conversations-with-magic-stones/
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Hmmmm……
https://news.stv.tv/highlands-islands/dead-fox-found-on-orkney-with-no-known-population-of-animal?
If it was brought here and dumped – why do that? If not – are foxes returning to Orkney? It matters, as the return of foxes could affect the balance of wildlife already here – and for that matter, change life for folk who keep chickens and ducks – tho’ the stoats have a go at them too.
I wrote about foxes in Orkney in this piece…
https://theorkneynews.scot/2021/06/11/thinking-foxy-thoughts/
I’ll be interested to see what the outcome of the investigation is.
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