Bruce Stuart
@thevikingpict.bsky.social
Interested in Scottish history, Norse mythology, travel and a heap of other interesting things. Bit of a bookworm really.
Gratulerer med dagen! 17 Mai 2025.
May 17, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Gratulerer med dagen! 17 Mai 2025.
Sobering, but very necessary for us all to think on.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This is very good. Though not in any way jolly or helping today's bleak mood. Necessary, though, to put authenticity above cliche.
This is very good. Though not in any way jolly or helping today's bleak mood. Necessary, though, to put authenticity above cliche.
My VE Day was nothing like our image of it today. I hope we can honour what it really meant | Sheila Hancock
Our street party tea was a muted celebration, full of uncertainty. Then, as now, we faced a long struggle towards a better world, says actor and writer Sheila Hancock
www.theguardian.com
May 4, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Sobering, but very necessary for us all to think on.
This is well worth watching. It really shines a light on the men/boys who were directly involved in WW1. Interesting but possibly more importantly, something for us all to learn from.
#FWW Podcast
Thank you: In the first three days of release, we have already had 400+ views of our fully-illustrated video podcast on the sites and astonishingly well preserved finds of the #WW1 Flanders battlefields with expert archaeologist, @simonverdegem.bsky.social.
youtu.be/EYUniJ_NZuo?...
Thank you: In the first three days of release, we have already had 400+ views of our fully-illustrated video podcast on the sites and astonishingly well preserved finds of the #WW1 Flanders battlefields with expert archaeologist, @simonverdegem.bsky.social.
youtu.be/EYUniJ_NZuo?...
Echoes from the Trenches: WW1 Unearthed – with Simon Verdegem
YouTube video by Red River Archaeology Group
youtu.be
February 2, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This is well worth watching. It really shines a light on the men/boys who were directly involved in WW1. Interesting but possibly more importantly, something for us all to learn from.
A pleasant surprise on our walk out to Quoyness Chambered Cairn, Sanday.
January 31, 2025 at 3:57 PM
A pleasant surprise on our walk out to Quoyness Chambered Cairn, Sanday.
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"
January 22, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Can anyone else see the mountain troll? (Åna-Sira. Norway 🇳🇴)
January 18, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Can anyone else see the mountain troll? (Åna-Sira. Norway 🇳🇴)
Did you know Trolls don't just live in Scandinavia? We have our own Trows (probably 'cousins') here in Orkney.
Here's our own Hogboon meeting up with some Norwegian Trolls who live in Orkney with us.🧌
Here's our own Hogboon meeting up with some Norwegian Trolls who live in Orkney with us.🧌
January 17, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Did you know Trolls don't just live in Scandinavia? We have our own Trows (probably 'cousins') here in Orkney.
Here's our own Hogboon meeting up with some Norwegian Trolls who live in Orkney with us.🧌
Here's our own Hogboon meeting up with some Norwegian Trolls who live in Orkney with us.🧌
A lovely sunset from Sanday, Orkney this evening.
January 16, 2025 at 4:16 PM
A lovely sunset from Sanday, Orkney this evening.
Great wee trip away from Orkney and a bonus forest thrown in on a cracking day. Bliss!
January 11, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Great wee trip away from Orkney and a bonus forest thrown in on a cracking day. Bliss!
Here's to a good 2025.
January 1, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Here's to a good 2025.
Look away from the standing stones in Orkney on Hogmanay. (A timely warning!)
Final #StandingStoneSunday for the year is the Stane O' Quoybune, just across Boardhouse Loch from my home. Probably Late Neolithic.
On new year’s eve it walks down to the loch for a drink and you mustn’t watch it when it does, on pain of death. Many Orkney stones do this - you’ve been warned! 🏺
On new year’s eve it walks down to the loch for a drink and you mustn’t watch it when it does, on pain of death. Many Orkney stones do this - you’ve been warned! 🏺
December 31, 2024 at 8:25 PM
Look away from the standing stones in Orkney on Hogmanay. (A timely warning!)
Aliens at Edinburgh Castle 🏰...or maybe just a practice for Hogmanay...
December 29, 2024 at 10:06 PM
Aliens at Edinburgh Castle 🏰...or maybe just a practice for Hogmanay...
Decisions...Decisions.
December 28, 2024 at 4:53 PM
Decisions...Decisions.
Reposted by Bruce Stuart
The devastation on its way is unimaginable - like nothing humanity has ever witnessed before - and everyone will wish they had been climate activists and ‘hysterics’ when they had the chance. We are in a moment of unprecedented stupidity
December 22, 2024 at 1:41 PM
The devastation on its way is unimaginable - like nothing humanity has ever witnessed before - and everyone will wish they had been climate activists and ‘hysterics’ when they had the chance. We are in a moment of unprecedented stupidity
Reposted by Bruce Stuart
This is the Neolithic chambered cairn of Maeshowe in #Orkney which was built 5000 years ago. Every year on the #WinterSolstice (if the sky is clear) the setting sun shines down a perfectly aligned passageway and illuminates the inner chamber.💡
December 21, 2024 at 11:14 AM
This is the Neolithic chambered cairn of Maeshowe in #Orkney which was built 5000 years ago. Every year on the #WinterSolstice (if the sky is clear) the setting sun shines down a perfectly aligned passageway and illuminates the inner chamber.💡
Morning.
Thought I should say hello.
Just love living here in Orkney with its archeology and stories.
Thought I should say hello.
Just love living here in Orkney with its archeology and stories.
December 20, 2024 at 9:17 AM
Morning.
Thought I should say hello.
Just love living here in Orkney with its archeology and stories.
Thought I should say hello.
Just love living here in Orkney with its archeology and stories.