Remembrance…..Contradiction – Part 8…..Something Interesting…..
by Bernie Bell - 09:46 on 11 November 2025
Remembrance…..
Eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month…..remembering when Britain fought Fascism…..
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Contradiction – Part 8
I read in ‘The Orcadian’
That funding is available
For winter tourism
Yet Orkney Museum
Will be closing
For Jan & Feb
Contradiction
BB Nov. ‘25
AND..... Tourist Information Centres are being closed right across Scotland.
Someone isn’t joining up the dots.
The ‘Contradictions’ series so far…..
https://theorkneynews.scot/2022/04/07/the-contradiction/
https://theorkneynews.scot/2022/04/10/contradictions-part-two/
https://theorkneynews.scot/2022/04/19/contradictions-part-three/
https://theorkneynews.scot/2022/04/23/contradictions-part-4/
https://theorkneynews.scot/2022/04/27/contradictions-part-five/
https://theorkneynews.scot/2022/05/22/contradictions-part-six/
Plus…
Contradictions – Part 7……..
Mr Stockan
In his wisdom
States that Orkney tourism
Needs Cruise Liners
Carrying thousands
Polluting and disrupting.
And yet
He also supports the Faray turbines
Visible for miles
From ferries traveling to the Isles
Bringing visitors
To see wildlife
Including seals?
Contradictions.
BB – December 2022.
And that’s still rumbling on…..
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Something Interesting….
I’ll quote from the UHI blog…
“Artist Joanne B. Kaar will work with the UHI Orkney team to explore marine energy transitions in Orkney as part of the ongoing TRANSECTS project.”
https://archaeologyorkney.com/2025/11/11/transects-artist/
As we walk the beaches of Orkney, we often come across bits of workwear - odd gloves, odd wellies. These all speak of the folk who wore them, and presumably lost them while working.
Having a wander, Joanne would probably find plenty of them, and bits of thin plastic twine – which we bring home to use in the garden, but Joanne could use in her work.
And it all helps to get crap off the beaches!
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