https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/feb/15/orkney-ghosts-of-past-world-of-stonehenge-british-museum
"You could continue for several lifetimes and not get to the bottom of it, ... Every year it never fails to produce something that astounds us."
on my bucket list to visit the Orkneys
Quote from: Holly on Feb 15, 2022, 11:49 AM
on my bucket list to visit the Orkneys
It's worth it.
the C in C wants to go to Scotland sometime soonish and so I just have to persuade here to go a bit further than she was thinking....
Quote from: Holly on Feb 15, 2022, 12:17 PM
the C in C wants to go to Scotland sometime soonish and so I just have to persuade here to go a bit further than she was thinking....
We broke the journey there and back in the Highlands. If she likes craft items, there are potteries, jewellers and weavers (our Orcadian blanket remains in regular winter use).
I'll work on her :)
Quote from: Holly on Feb 15, 2022, 12:17 PM
the C in C wants to go to Scotland sometime soonish and so I just have to persuade here to go a bit further than she was thinking....
I have just been watching that episode of Dad's Army where Mainwaring explains how he spent his honeymoon in the Scottish highlands and, there being little else to do, he mastered playing the bagpipes.
A wheeze to bear in mind....