Talk Orkney to me ...
Jun. 30th, 2024 05:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustE. and I don't see each other as much as we'd like, and we always have plenty to talk about: how are you? and what are you reading? and how are the family? and what comics are you reading?... But she took me by surprise on Friday when she told me that she had recently bee on holiday in Orkney.
Being a proper modern person, she had all the photos on her phone, and we used that magic to travel together to Scara Brae, and the Ring of Brodgar, and - video! moving images" - watched the water wheel at the Barony Mill throwing up rainbows in the sun.
In addition to all these favourite haunts, E. had managed to visit somewhere I had never been - never even heard of. Yet it was absolutely a place that we would both like: Betty's Reading Room, next to the ferry pier at Tingwall.
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Being a proper modern person, she had all the photos on her phone, and we used that magic to travel together to Scara Brae, and the Ring of Brodgar, and - video! moving images" - watched the water wheel at the Barony Mill throwing up rainbows in the sun.
In addition to all these favourite haunts, E. had managed to visit somewhere I had never been - never even heard of. Yet it was absolutely a place that we would both like: Betty's Reading Room, next to the ferry pier at Tingwall.
Description in the Ultima Thule blog.
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