Etherley Jackson

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[Etherley Jackson @etherley]

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New fear unlocked. 😱

The life of an Archivist is wild. One minute you're merrily scanning through a folder of old photographs, the next you've uncovered something like this and it feels you're starring in the pre-title sequence of a 70s horror movie.

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We are CLOSED on Monday 6th April for #EasterMonday.

This year the staff are all heading across to Copinsay lighthouse for our annual reenactment of The Rock. It's my turn to be Sean Connery.

See you all when we've stopped Ed Harris and his men*

*next week

Happy Easter! 🐣

[Etherley Jackson @etherley]

The sunsets are getting better again in #Orkney

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Our Archive has just posted a new Blog post, written by guest blogger Joan, about the transcription of 17th century documents concerning the merchant and privateer Captain Peter Winchester.

You can read it (and all their other fascinating blog posts) at:

https://t.co/WZVTQumvlB

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Darn. Ordered salad in a restaurant, fogetting that I can't eat salad in a dignified way.

[Etherley Jackson @etherley]

Sick for a week, missed all my posting dates, need to rustle up some energy for the week ahead. But... still enjoying my present from a mystery person...

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Picture the scene.

It's 1901. It's Paris. You make a bet with some friends that you could walk around the world, funding the entire trip by selling postcards featuring photos of YOURSELF. You set off.

This is the story of Charles Millot. Read it now at: https://t.co/dUFnQeTwas

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It's 16 minutes past 3. The sun has set in #Orkney. Just 6 hours and 19 minutes of daylight today.

We are almost at the shortest day but there will still be 9 minutes less daylight on the #WinterSolstice.

And then the light returns. 💡

[Etherley Jackson @etherley]

#StormBram is just relentless out there. I can't get over to sleep.

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@Duffy_theBear That's alot for a little bear. ❤️

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Fantastic news!

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Clan descendants in US and Canada save historic church in two days https://t.co/ZpxKwQwXth

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20th November. Half past 4.

A month until the winter solstice.

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It's a little known fact that Otis Redding spent time in Hoy, #Orkney during the 1920s while engineer Ernest Cox carried out salvage work on the scuttled German fleet, as shown in this photograph.

Otis was often seen sitting on the dock in Mill Bay, watching the tide roll away.

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Very difficult today.

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@suzypuss I had a break from tinternet, so missed this. Happy birthday!