New Spaces
The Blide Trust door is open when I arrive for the first creative session. The door is permanently and deliberately ajar, there is no boundary, no burden of pushing to open a way inside. It is a simple, single step. As simple, and as complex, as putting one word next to another. This evening, reading […]
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Orkney Gold It has been a golden week on Orkney. The sky has been blue and the sun unveiled. The Orkney 2025 Island Games are now complete: the races and swims, the after party and the journey home. Any athletes who remain will be refreshed by the soft rain that now falls from a mild [...]Read more of Orkney Gold...Island Voices Celebration
Copies of Island Voices have now arrived back in Orkney. Unpacked quickly they were rapidly distributed into Orkney 2025 Island Games volunteer bags and have begun to be distributed through the community. I have already had a number of folk asking how they get a copy. However, the books are not for sale. They are a [...]Read more of Island Voices Celebration...Race to the finish?
Seasonal Book Fayre
Christmas is a time of stories. It is a time of memory. It is a time for the reading and exchange of books. Books will be picked up from dressing tables in visited houses and smuggled away, books will be opened avidly while a mound of unopened presents still waits, books will be taken as […]
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