Picture the scene. It's 1901. It's Paris. You make a bet with some friends that you could walk around the world, funding the entire trip by selling postcards featuring photos of YOURSELF. You set off. This is the story of Charles Millot. Read it now at: orkneyarchive.blogspot.com

Favourite haunts of #DumfriesandGalloway #1 The #TwelveApostles stone circle

Favourite haunts of #DumfriesandGalloway #2 #Burnswark hill and forts, near Ecclefechan

I was nearly in a comedy farce there. No electricity in house and parents coming to stay. But phew - power is back on in #Harray #Orkney

Wondered why King Aethelwulf has such a nice voice. Where's he from? Oh Ireland. That explains it. Then i had a dream of him. Now I'm hooked. #Vikings #MoeDunford

Lunchtime view pretty good today in #Kirkwall

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Still need to update our #TheTraitors display...🗡 #IYKYK

Cool double rainbow yesterday morning #rainbow Got on the soaked side trying to photograph it.

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It's a little known fact that Otis Redding spent time in Hoy, #Orkney during the 1920s while engineer Ernest Cox carried out salvage work on the scuttled German fleet, as shown in this photograph. Otis was often seen sitting on the dock in Mill Bay, watching the tide roll away.

20th November. Half past 4. A month until the winter solstice.

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Fantastic news!

#StormBram is just relentless out there. I can't get over to sleep.

It's 16 minutes past 3. The sun has set in #Orkney. Just 6 hours and 19 minutes of daylight today. We are almost at the shortest day but there will still be 9 minutes less daylight on the #WinterSolstice. And then the light returns. 💡

Sick for a week, missed all my posting dates, need to rustle up some energy for the week ahead. But... still enjoying my present from a mystery person...