View out the airport windows at Kirkwall Airport with Tankerness and the north sea visible.
There are worse airports to fly from in the morning! Though sitting in departures with morning breakfast TV coverage does remind me why I don't normally watch the news these days. Lots about oil and self-interest, not heard much relief that many Iran lives weren't endangered last night 😬 #Kirkwall
Grateful that our cinema in #Kirkwall will be showing #TheVoiceOfHindRajab this week. In collaboration with Amnesty Orkney, Orkney friends of Palestine and the Unison Orkney Health Branch.
#Orkney #Gaza #Palestine #NamesNotNumbers
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Yesterday's (24th Mar) daily #sunshine totals from SYNOP observations.
#Kirkwall was the sunniest location with 8.4 hours of #sun.
www.roostweather.com/ukobs/dailysunshine_map....
Remember this Women's History Month you can donate £3 to ORSAS by using our contactless card reader in the window of 26 Bridge Street. Just hold your card or phone over the window and donate £3 to help us support survivors.
#donation #charity #support #kirkwall #orkney #womenshistorymonth
It was good to have @amcarmichaelmp.bsky.social and @orkneymsp.bsky.social in attendance at the vigil in #Kirkwall #Orkney yesterday.
Week after week we continue to stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine, in #Gaza but also the #WestBank especially our friends in the Shua'fat refugee camp.
St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall. The image shows the cathedral from a corner view, with the nave on the right and a transept and then the choir on the left. It is topped off by a tower with a pointed spire. The cathedral is made of mainly red stone with yellow stone details and there are graves in the foreground. The scene is in sunshine.
The magnificent St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall, Orkney, started in 1137 by the Norse Earl Rognvald to celebrate the sainthood of his uncle, Earl Magnus, who had been killed in 1117. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...
#Scotland #StMagnusCathedral #Cathedral #Kirkwall #Orkney
I am massively, MASSIVELY grateful to @ldlapinski.bsky.social for making the trip to #Orkney this week to work with four schools across three days, as well as finding time to visit our local bookshop in #Kirkwall and sign their copies too! Such an amazing opportunity for our pupils! #WorldBookDay 🙌🏻📚
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Yesterday's (28th Feb) daily #sunshine totals from SYNOP observations.
#Kirkwall was the sunniest location with 9.6 hours of #sun.
www.roostweather.com/ukobs/dailysunshine_map....
"Whoop!"
Whooper Swan (Cygnus cygnus) on the Peedie Sea, #Kirkwall, #Orkney.
#OrkneyBirding #BirdingScotland #UKBirds #UKBirding #Birds #Wildlife #UKWildlife #Nature #Photography #birdsoftheworld #ornithology #Whooper #Swan 🪶
Old Tour #Scotland #Ancestry Travel Visit #Genealogy #Scottish Family #History Blog #photography of a sailing ship in the harbour in #Kirkwall, #Orkney #Islands. The town is first mentioned in Orkneyinga saga in the year 1046 tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2012/01/old-...
"The Eye of the Whooper"
Portrait of one of 23 Whooper Swans (Cygnus cygnus) present on the Peedie Sea, #Kirkwall, #Orkney, on Sunday.
#OrkneyBirding #BirdingScotland #UKBirds #UKBirding #Birds #Wildlife #UKWildlife #Nature #Photography #birdsoftheworld #ornithology #Whooper #Swan 🪶
The south transept doorway of St. Magnus Cathedral at Kirkwall in Orkney, with its alternating sandstone stonework. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #Kirkwall #Orkney
4 Feb 1593: d. Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of #Orkney at the Palace of the Yards #Kirkwall #otd - he was then buried in St. Magnus Cathedral (Stevekeiretsu)
In der ehrwürdigen Kathedrale von Kirkwall hat sich die Doctor-Who-TARDIS zwischen prächtigen Gladiolen und exotischen Schnittblumen verirrt, wobei der dramatische Weltraum-Hintergrund mit seinen glühenden Galaxien und Gestirnen einen bizarren Kontrast zur gottesdienstlichen Blumenschau bildet. Die Gegenüberstellung von zeitreisender Telefonzelle und traditioneller kirchlicher Blumenausstellung erzeugt eine herrlich absurde Szene zwischen Science-Fiction und schottischer Gemeindefrömmigkeit. In the venerable Kirkwall Cathedral, the Doctor Who TARDIS has gotten lost among magnificent gladioli and exotic cut flowers, with the dramatic space background featuring glowing galaxies and celestial bodies creating a bizarre contrast to the devotional flower show. The juxtaposition of time-traveling telephone box and traditional church flower exhibition creates a delightfully absurd scene between science fiction and Scottish parish piety.
'Objekte die mit "G" beginnen oder so aussehen ...' #FotoVorschlag
"Gallifrey trifft Gladiolen: Gotteshaus-Gesteck mit Galaktischem Gast"
"Gallifrey Meets Gladioli: God's House Garland with Galactic Guest"
#Photography
#Kirkwall
#FlowerFestival
#Tardis
three small brown ducks with dark heads and large dark bills, resting together on a seaweed-encrusted shoreline rock
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Ducks
Common Eider ducklings, Orkney 2008
#Birds #NaturePhotography #Nature #Wildlife #BirdPhotography #Scotland #Orkney #Kirkwall
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#JEANETTE #MARY #LANDELL #BUCKHAM
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#KIRKWALL BA #GAME
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#ORUMANAYUR
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Please note that we are remaining closed today, Monday 05 January 2026, due to weather and in the interest of keeping our staff and clients safe. The office will reopen once it is safe to do so.
#closed #snowstorm #orkney #orsas #kirkwall
A bitty different from the last time you were here @blazespage.bsky.social. @theorkneynews.bsky.social Video credit Kenny Armet.
#Snow #Scotland #Orkney #WhiteOut #SnowStorm #Kirkwall
View over the tarmac at Kirkwall Airport out over the bay of Inganess, to Tankerness on the right and out towards the outer isles.
There's worse views from a departure lounge at an airport 😄 #Kirkwall #Orkney #FlyingHomeForChristmas
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Yesterday's (18th Dec) daily #sunshine totals from SYNOP observations.
#Kirkwall was the sunniest location with 3.1 hours of #sun.
www.roostweather.com/ukobs/dailysunshine_map....
One of the signs that #Christmas is coming today at school! #Norwegian musicians playing for the whole school 🇳🇴 #Orkney has close links with Norway and we're fortunate that a delegation come each year for the Orkney celebration of St Lucia and the turning on of the #Kirkwall Christmas tree.
Once more, a map I have no connect to was enhanced & hooked me with the extensive and excellent writing from our team of researchers. The language of the streets and geographic features are annotated perfectly, drawing the reader into the stories and lives of those in #Kirkwall & #Stromness 1902.
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Yesterday's (11th Nov) daily #sunshine totals from SYNOP observations.
#Kirkwall was the sunniest location with 5.0 hours of #sun.
www.roostweather.com/ukobs/dailysunshine_map....
Can't wait for this! My first trip across to Orkney and looking forward to meeting some authors I've not crossed paths with before.
#orkney #kirkwall #bookfestival #booksky
A repaired, round bottomed prehistoric pottery bowl with irregular rim and surface lugs in a museum case
A gorgeous early Iron Age round-based pottery bowl from Howe broch #Orkney
The unusual design and decoration may have been intended to mimic a riveted bronze cauldron 🤩
On display in the wonderful Orkney Museum in #Kirkwall
#FindsFriday #Prehistory #Archaeology #AncientBluesky
📷 Aug 2024
