a recent painting from my ‘Vive La Nan’ show. Proper Chips

Very good Ken.

Lovely Ken.

“Reading Is Fun!”

The great Maurice Sendak’s poster for 1979’s International Year Of The Child.

After weeks of rain we have some sunshine and a sprinkling of snow 💒❄️☀️

What a pretty colour Ken.

Cole's Corner, painting by Sheffield artist Bill Kirby (1934-2019).

The view out the back of the library. The streetlights are on. The sky is a deep bright blue.

Incredible scenes as we slide from January into February and realise that yet again it's Monday night (and it's 5pm) so it MUST be time for Episode 4 of 'How light is it in #Orkney at 5pm this week?'

We are NOT making this up.

IT REALLY IS THIS LIGHT 💡

'Kirkwall Fair.' (1888) Although Arthur Melville was not regarded as one of the Glasgow Boys, he was seen by them to be a kindred spirit. A year after painting this work on Orkney, he left Edinburgh and settled in London, although he often returned to Scotland to paint.

Nice to see this back Ken.

If X equals bluesky
Then I'll give it a try,
Many followers have defected
And now I have reconnected.

Hoping for better days ahead
Working from my garden shed,
Inspiration is all I need
Then all my followers will take heed.

Not quite a sonnet.

Well done Ken

I lived in Orkney for 9 years and try to go back every summer so l loved it.

I love this poem in Orcadian Dialect by Kevin Cormack in the latest edition of PN Review

Same here and l wouldn't want to miss any tweets by Ken Brookes.

I joined because @imcmillan.bsky.social has moved and it is nice to see some familiar names on here.I won't be leaving twitter yet though.xx

Thank you Ian.