Robinson R.R…..Skaill Knives……BBC Pics of Scotland…….
by Bernie Bell - 08:14 on 15 November 2025
Ralph Robinson…
https://theorkneynews.scot/2025/09/04/things-connecting-up/
….has been making articulated cards using bits of plastic from the beach – he sent us one ….it’s ace.
It’s on our bookshelf opened up and then will be part-closed, closed, and played with, now and then......
What it is to know creative, inventive, dextrous folk who can use whatever comes to hand to ……..articulate.
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Skaill Knives……
https://www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/focus-on-finds-skaill-knives/
I notice that one of them is decorated – even purely functional items were decorated.
Brings to mind my poem…
Thoughts about the drain, discovered at the Ness
It's not just Sky-stones,
Carved Balls,
Painted Walls.
It's the basics of life.
Making, Breaking.
The fragments which can say so much,
To those who pay attention.
Butchery - How?
Placement - Why?
Careful noting of the smallest detail,
Builds the picture.
The beauty, matters.
Beauty, simply, does.
"Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or
believe to be beautiful."
The principle, works down the ages.
Beauty, mystery, and.....practicality.
LIFE.
Bernie Bell August 2015
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BBC Pics of Scotland…….
Week ending 14th of November 2025….
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1lq94222l2o
Many, many spectacular images and some wise advice about photographing wildlife from Orkney’s Bill Hodgson.
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