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CLondoner92 (New Account)

From 1 April 2025, young residents under 22 in #Orkney, #Shetland, and the Outer #Hebrides will receive free inter-island ferry travel. The scheme, part of the #Scottish Government's Islands Connectivity Plan, allows free travel as foot passengers on local ferries with a Young Scot or National Entitlement Card. This initiative, highlighted in the 2025-26 #transport budget, aims to make ferry services more affordable and sustainable, helping tackle child poverty and support economic growth. It will improve access to education, work, and social opportunities. Supported by the Scottish Youth Parliament, the scheme will make rural activities more accessible for young islanders.
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Assoc for Scottish Literature

“This is a perfect, hearty, oat-y bread with a lovely ginger flavor. It’s delicious and moist when fresh, but still excellent toasted and buttered the next day”

The History in the Making website shares F. Marian McNeill’s recipe for Broonie – a traditional oatmeal gingerbread from Orkney

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History in the Making · BroonieBroonie is a traditional oatmeal gingerbread from the Orkney Islands in Scotland. This particular recipe comes from the folklorist F. Marian McNeill, who collected traditional recipes for her 1929 …
#Scottish#literature#Orkney
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Assoc for Scottish Literature

“Florence Marian McNeill had curated and created a book that had become an iconic, cultural bequest at a personal family level”

—Amanda Edmiston explores the legacy of F. Marian McNeill’s classic cookbook THE SCOTS KITCHEN

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thebottleimp.org.uk/2024/11/dr

The Bottle Imp · Dreaming Bread and Flourishing Folklore - The Bottle Imp‘I’ll do it,’ she said. ‘I’m very happy to have shortbread broken over my head… I can think of worse things.’ The shortbread – dreaming bread – round, encrusted with almonds, fresh out of the tin, baked the night before according to Florence Marian McNeill’s instructions in The Scots Kitchen (1929), shivered a little and started to […]
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Assoc for Scottish Literature

Florence Marian McNeill (1885–1973) was born #OTD, 26 March. A notable figure in Scotland’s 20th-century literary renaissance, she wrote on suffrage, politics, food, heritage, & folklore – including the recipe and food-heritage book THE SCOTS KITCHEN, and THE SILVER BOUGH, a 4-volume study of Scottish festivals & folk-belief

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Scottish Women Writers on the WebFlorence Marian McNeill — Scottish Women Writers on the WebFlorence Marian McNeill was a folklorist, culinary writer, and novelist who was also active in the women's suffrage and peace movements. She was a founding members of the Scottish National Party in 1934, and its first vice president. She is best known for The Scots Kitchen, which documents Scotlan
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Fiona Grahame Orkney News Ltd

People in #Orkney came together on Saturday 22 March appalled at the situation in #Gaza as Israel broke the ceasefire. Over 170 children and babies were killed in one day.
In this film by Mike Robertson for The Orkney News we hear from some of those who attended the vigil on the Kirk Green, Broad Street, Kirkwall.
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Monissa

In another place, I'm doing a thread of islands I've visited, because it fits my username. One photo every day or so. But sometimes an extra photo slips in that I can't use (because one photo per island) so I'll have to share it here.

St Tredwell's Loch, on Papa Westray, one of the smaller islands of Orkney. I don't know why a lake on an island seems so odd, but it does. Maybe because of how close it is to the sea. (You might be able to see the strip of blue sea behind the loch.)

Photo is taken from St Tredwell's Chapel, the ruins of a Medieval chapel built over Iron Age remains, or an overgrown bunch of rocks on a hill. (As you can in the foreground.)

If you're into photos of islands, the thread starts here:
bsky.app/profile/islandhopping

A large, flat green-grey body of water. In the foreground is a bank covered with scruffy grass and some grey rocks covered with white lichen. In the background is a long strip of grassland curving around the loch. A huddle of stone buildings are just visible on the far side. Behind them is a blue strip of sea and beyond that, another low island. There are some white dots on the water, which are actually swans but too far away to see.
#Orkney#PapaWestray#Lakes
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Assoc for Scottish Literature

And up come he to her bed fit,
And a grumlie guest I’m sure was he,
Saying, “Here am I, thy bairnie’s faither
Although I may not comely be.”

—The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry (traditional)

Illustration: Vernon Hill, “The Great Sealchie of Sule Skerrie”, in Ballads Weird and Wonderful by Richard Pearse Chope (John Lane, 1912)

The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry Traditional An earthly nourris sits and sings And aye she sings, “Ba lilly wean, Little ken I my bairnie’s faither Far less the land that he bides in.” And up come he to her bed fit, And a grumlie guest I’m sure was he, Saying, “Here am I, thy bairnie’s faither Although I may not comely be. “I am a man upon the land, I am a selkie in the sea, And when I’m far and far frae land My hame is in the Sule Skerry.” Then he has taen a purse of gold And he has set it on her knee, Saying, “Gie to me, my ain wee son, And you accept your nourris fee. “It shall come to pass on a summer’s day When the sun shines bricht on every stane That I will tak my ain wee son And learn him how to swim the faem. “And you will marry a proud gunner, And a richt good gunner I’m sure he’ll be, And wi the first shot that e’er he fires He’ll kill baith my bonnie son and me.”
A monochrome illustration. A young woman cradles a baby at her breast. She looks over her shoulder towards a strange, splay-legged figure, bearded, with a drooping moustache and staring, inhuman eyes. He reaches out his right hand, offering the woman a small sack of coins.
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Mark

Two #posties deployed to Harray amid delivery disruption - The #Orcadian Online

Two postal workers have been deployed to Harray to “return deliveries to normal” after some residents reported not receiving any letters or parcels for over ten days.

#RoyalMail shared this update with The Orcadian today (Tuesday), amid serious concerns around a lack of #deliveries — and communication regarding the #disruption.

orcadian.co.uk/two-posties-dep

The Orcadian Online · Two posties deployed to Harray amid delivery disruption - The Orcadian OnlineTwo postal workers have been deployed to Harray to “return deliveries to normal” after some residents reported not receiving any letters or parcels for over ten days. Royal Mail shared this update with The Orcadian today (Tuesday), amid serious concerns around a lack of deliveries — and communication regarding the disruption. Orkney MSP Liam McArthur […]
#PrivatisationFail#Orkney#mail
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