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@orkneylibrary.bsky.socialAll the leaves are brown
and the sky is grey.
I've been for a walk,
our balls are cold today.
They'd be dry and warm
if they were in L.A.
#SaturdayMorning dreaming
on an #Orkney autumn day. 🍂
@orkneylibrary.bsky.socialIt's #HeritageCareersWeek which aims to showcase the wide variety of careers available in the heritage sector. ❤️
We've made a video showing some of the many, varied jobs carried out by Library and Archive Assistants in a day at Orkney Library & Archive.
@orkneylibrary.bsky.socialOrkney Library staff doing their bit for the #WeeRead today. ❤️
Join us by reading something (anything!) today and enjoy the incredible benefits that reading gives you. 📚
Find out more and pledge to read now at: weeread.scot
@orkneylibrary.bsky.socialToday it's the #WeeRead - a campaign to get people all across Scotland READING TOGETHER on 7th October!
Join us by reading something today - reading for just 6 minutes can reduce stress and improve mental health! Find out more and pledge to read at: weeread.scot
@orkneylibrary.bsky.socialIt's Monday, it's October, and the nights are drawing in so it's time for the new season of YAP & YARN - our library knitting and crochet group that meets every 2nd Monday across the darker months! 🧶
Everyone is welcome to come along! Find out more at: orkneylibrary.org.uk/yap-yarn/
@orkneylibrary.bsky.socialOn a dark dark hill there was a dark dark town.
In the dark dark town there was a dark dark library.
And in the dark dark library...
there was a big skeleton, a little skeleton and a dog skeleton!
Stromness Library is ready for #Halloween with Steph's fabulous #Funnybones art!
@orkneylibrary.bsky.social'So that's the book finished. All you need now is a title.' 'I was thinking about calling it "DIE." 'Just DIE? Nothing else?' 'No. Why?' 'Hey don't get me wrong, it's a good title. I'm just not sure that it's clear enough that it means a MURDER story.' 'So what do you suggest...?'
@orkneylibrary.bsky.sociala short poem name
like when we meet a bovine
and we say 'hi coo'
@orkneylibrary.bsky.socialConstantly
@orkneylibrary.bsky.socialThere's only a week to go until the #WeeRead - a campaign to get 50,000 people across Scotland ALL READING TOGETHER on Wednesday 7th October!
Reading for just 6 minutes a day has been shown to reduce stress and improve mental health so pledge to read now at: www.weeread.scot/
@orkneylibrary.bsky.socialHappy 479th Birthday to Miguel Cervantes who was born #onthisday in 1547 🎂
In his most famous work Don Quixote, the title character charges at windmills, mistaking them for monstrous giants with swords, so in tribute we're all going up Burgar Hill in #Orkney to tilt at the wind turbines. 🎉
@orkneylibrary.bsky.socialScottish followers - Don't forget that 7th October is the #WeeRead - a campaign to get 50,000 people across Scotland pledging to READ! 📚
So far more than 31,000 have pledged so why not join them?
Find out more AND pledge to read at:
@orkneylibrary.bsky.socialA few years ago our Palaeography Group transcribed the letter - you can find out more about it and read the transcription on our Archive Blog at:
@orkneylibrary.bsky.socialThough the letter was sent five years before the Great Fire of London, it was sent very close to where the fire later started. Peter Winchester captained several ships at the time and the letter was sent to him from Thomas Buchanan who lived on the island of Shapinsay, #Orkney.
@orkneylibrary.bsky.socialIt was addressed to Peter Winchester who was staying at the King's Head, Pudding Lane in Fish Street London. On 2nd September 1666 Samuel Pepys wrote '300 houses have been burned down tonight by the fire we saw, and that it was now burning down all Fishstreet by London Bridge.'
@orkneylibrary.bsky.socialSeptember 2026 marks 360 years since the Great Fire of London which took place in September 1666. It also reminds us of that time we found a letter in the Archive dated 1661, sent from #Orkney to an address in Pudding Lane, London - the very place the fire began. 🔥
@orkneylibrary.bsky.socialBut he won't back down
@orkneylibrary.bsky.socialbut we ain't got wings
@orkneylibrary.bsky.socialNo, he won't back down
@orkneylibrary.bsky.socialLooks like Tom Petty has been messing about with our displays again
