Features
Cast yows view from ward Hill
12/12/2008 10:58:00
Time to protect our ancient towns
How many town centres can a town have? Humans in Stromness are waking up to the possibility of more centres than a box of Quality Street. With a hub at the north end and another at the pier, the over-planned and consultation-weary populace of that town may feel that they are on a two-wheeled bicycle going round in circles.
The Boyhood Memories of Johnny Pottinger
12/12/2008 10:55:00
Stromness shops and traders
But across the street was the small shop of 'Ginger Babby', a small
sweetie shop whose speciality was home-made ginger beer, and excellent
stuff it was too.
Fashionable hair-dos for the party season
12/12/2008 10:51:00
This month, Orkney Today's focus on fashion looks at Christmas hairstyles for women ...
IF YOU have a Christmas night out coming up and have the perfect outfit already picked out you might be wondering how to complete the look. We asked two Orkney salons for some ideas.
Are you being heard? by Rosalind Spence
12/12/2008 10:49:00
My mission is to help folk
PEOPLE often ask me what I do for a living; I tell them I'm an advocate. I'm sure they see me in a grey wig and black robes, in court, representing my client, M'Lord. That's not what I do.
Loose Talk the trials of middle age, by Les Cowan
12/12/2008 10:48:00
Confession is good for the soul and is traditional
AROUND this time of year along with peace, goodwill and a double dose of Alka-Seltzer, it can be traditional to think about wrongs from the past we really ought to put right before another year goes by. In connection with which, it seems that the owner of an Indian food store in Bristol has recently received an apology letter and £100 from a former drug addict who stole cigarettes from the shop in 2001.
Tales out of school by Anne Cormack
12/12/2008 10:47:00
Sail away from phone
WHEN you live in one of the North Isles, but don't work at the fishing, there are still various reasons for buying a boat. A love of sailing and the sea: a desire to enjoy the fresh (and it is fresh!) air: to get a different form of exercise from walking or cycling: even to set a few hobby creels and so to savour the occasional lobster or partan. Why then did my good man, when head teacher of Sanday School, buy a boat? Read on.
Cast yows view from ward Hill
05/12/2008 11:01:00
Modern pirates reinvented on the high seas
Pirates are coming out of the fancy dress closet and shedding their Johnny Depp hoodlum appeal and reinventing themselves for the twenty first century. One of the oldest professions in the history of the globe, pirates were described as long ago as 1350 BC. This is seriously old and could have been shelved alongside the ten commandments in Moses' library, but a clay tablet from way back then in the reign of Pharo Echnaton starts the ooh ar pirate tale. In this ancient tale there is reference to notorious free lance Mediterranean shipping attacks in North Africa. All round the Med it seems pirates were in business from Greece to Gibraltar.
The Boyhood Memories of Johnny Pottinger
05/12/2008 11:00:00
Stromness shops and traders
George L Thomson's shop was long and narrow, parallel to the street, and with a row of display windows along its frontage. George L himself served at one counter, a girl (can't remember who) served at the far one, the whole shop between.
Going with the Flow …
05/12/2008 10:56:00
In our second feature focusing on outdoor activities, PETER FAY writes about the challenging sport of sea kayaking.
I FIRST started sea kayaking 20 years ago when I came to Orkney. I had only been in a kayak once before - down a river in England.
Womanly Wiles by I Venus
05/12/2008 10:46:00
Decorating for Christmas
RIGHT now artificial trees, Santas, imitation holly and baubles of all descriptions are being hunted out in almost every home in the county. Believe it or not, in the decorating stakes, we are all quite late.