#sandwick

[gourmandisespourlesyeux]

Young Jayne Mansfield likes a nice and good sandwich with a fresh coke.

[probablyasocialecologist]

An ambitious plan to plant at least a million native trees on crofts in the Outer Hebrides has taken root, its organisers say, with more than 200 small new woods sprouting across the islands. The Western Isles woodland project hopes to reestablish a thriving mosaic of small woods dotted across the islands by using vacant or underused crofts to reforest the Hebrides and promote nature restoration. Under the project, funded mainly by profits from the UK’s largest community-owned windfarm, west of Stornoway, 211,000 trees have already been planted on 245 crofts, plots of land that were historically family-run small holdings. Some of the new woodlands have up to 1,500 trees grown from local seeds, featuring alder, hazel, birch, rowan, Scots pine, blackthorn, sycamore and various species of willow. The project has been so successful it has helped establish three new tree nurseries on the islands.

[...]

“We’re restoring a landscape which existed a thousand years ago,” [Jon Macleod] said. Using seeds gathered from local trees greatly increased their chances of prospering – “the survival rate and provenance is relevant to the place”. Calum Macdonald, the former Labour MP leading the project, hoped it could be a model for community owned energy projects across the UK. Four-fifth of the woodlands’ funding is from the £900,000 annual profits made by the three 3MW wind turbines owned by Point and Sandwick trust, a community development body. The turbines at Beinn Ghrideag generate up to 30GWh of power a year – enough, Macdonald said, to supply all the Western Isles with electricity.

[...]

Green energy schemes generally employ only a handful of staff and engineers whereas community ownership allows people to capture the profits they produce and reinvest them locally, Macdonald said. In Denmark, about half of turbines are community-owned. Many rural communities in the UK feel excluded from the profits generated by energy firms, and resent the large turbines, sub-stations and large pylons built in their areas. “I would love to use the green energy revolution to get a lot more long-term benefits for our communities,” Macdonald said. Macleod agrees. “No one is against renewable energy here but community benefit is key, otherwise it’s just exploitation,” he said.

31 August 2024

[aimeedaisies]

The Princess Royal’s Official Engagements in August 2024

01/08 With Sir Tim As Member of the International Olympic Committee, and President of the British Olympic Association, attended the XXXIII Olympic Games in Marseilles, France. ⛵️🇫🇷🇬🇧

02/08 Unofficial With Sir Tim Arrived at Heathrow Airport, from France. 🇫🇷🛬🇬🇧

05/08 With Sir Tim As Patron of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, attended a Performance at Edinburgh Castle. 🏰🥁🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

🌞 start of summer break 🌞

15/08 The Anniversary of the Birthday of The Princess Royal. 🥳

20/08 unofficial Sir Tim, accompanied by Princess Anne, as the new patron, visited the Oban Peace and War Museum. ☮️🪖

21/08 unofficial With Sir Tim Attended a church service at Crathie Kirk. ⛪️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

🌞 end of summer break 🌞

29/08 Opened Carloway Community Association Community Centre at Knock. 🛍️

Visited Ishga Organic Seaweed Skincare Company in Stornoway. 💆‍♀️

Opened Point and Sandwick Trust Community Hub at Old Knock School in Stornoway. 🏫

Visited Bethesda Care Home and Hospice in Stornoway. 💐

Total official engagements for Anne in August: 6

2024 total so far: 280

Total official engagements accompanied by Tim in August: 2

2024 total so far: 81

FYl - due to certain royal family members being off ill/in recovery I won't be posting everyone's engagement counts out of respect, I am continuing to count them and release the totals at the end of the year.

[zedogica]

my life is worth just enough to get a chicken sandwick and not even a shitty little penny more than that

[artifacts-archive]

Bracelet

Viking, 950 - 970 CE

Bracelet (ring money) of silver, plain, part of Viking Age silver hoard found at Skaill, Sandwick, Orkney, deposited 950 - 970 AD

[scotianostra]

5th June 1916 saw the loss of “HMS Hampshire” off Marwick Head, Orkney, with the loss of hundreds of lives, including Lord Kitchener. Only 12 survived.

The true number of deaths from the sinking of HMS Hampshire 101 years ago has only recently been revealed by experts researching a definitive account of the tragedy. Twelve authors spent two years painstakingly researching the tragedy – which claimed the life of Lord Kitchener, of “Your Country Needs You” poster fame – and now put an accurate figure of 737 on the number of deaths, estimates of which have wildly fluctuated over the years. The figure is revealed in a book published in 2017, HMS Hampshire: A Century Of Myths And Mysteries Unravelled, which also looks at the truth behind other tales surrounding the sinking.

The Hampshire, an armoured cruiser, was en route from Orkney to Russia, taking Lord Kitchener, Secretary of State for War, on a secret mission to bolster support from the Tsar for the war when it hit a mine and sank.

The death of Kitchener had a profound impact on the country. “Very like President Kennedy or Princess Diana’s deaths in later years, everyone who was alive then would remember the moment they heard about Kitchener’s death And, much like Diana’s and Kennedy’s deaths, the demise of Kitchener attracted conspiracy theories.

Accusations of incomp­etence or collusion against the Admiralty have focused on the destruction of another ship, HM Drifter Laurel Crown, on 2 June, blown up by the same minefield laid by submarine U-75, and why the Hampshire was sent through a known danger zone. But authors of the book say the rumour comes from a simple misprint in an internal Admiralty document – the date of the destruction of the Laurel Crown should have read 22 June. Rumours that something sinister was afoot have also been fuelled by accounts from Orcadians claiming they were not allowed to assist in the rescue attempts and were even forcibly stopped by the military when they tried to intervene, but careful examination of what is still a sensitive subject in Orkney has revealed such stories are “almost certainly myth” with just two recorded incidents with some basis in fact. Many of the accounts come from Birsay, which was nearest to the stricken ship but not where rescue efforts were focused, in Sandwick, a few miles south of Marwick Head, where most bodies and survivors came ashore.

The second photo is the Kitchener Memorial at Birsay it is inscribed:

“This tower was raised by the people of Orkney in memory of Field Marshal Earl Kitchener of Khartoum on that corner of his country which he had served so faithfully nearest to the place where he died on duty. He and his staff perished along with the officers and nearly all the men of HMS Hampshire on 5 June 1916."

The tower was built in 1920 there is video of it’s unveiling ceremony here https://scotlandonscreen.org.uk/browse-films/007-000-002-399-c

[transgenderer]

A broch /brɒx/ is an Iron Age drystone hollow-walled structure found in Scotland. Brochs belong to the classification "complex Atlantic roundhouse" devised by Scottish archaeologists in the 1980s.

The original interpretation of brochs was that they were defensive structures, places of refuge for the community and their livestock. They were sometimes regarded as the work of Danes or Picts, and from the 1930s to the 1960s, archaeologists regarded them as castles where local landowners held sway over a subject population.

However, the castle theory fell from favour among Scottish archaeologists in the 1980s, due to a lack of supporting archaeological evidence. These archaeologists suggested defensibility was never a major concern in the siting of a broch, and argued that they may have been the "stately homes" of their time, objects of prestige and very visible demonstrations of superiority for important families. Once again, however, there is a lack of archaeological proof for this reconstruction, and the sheer number of brochs makes it problematic. The article concludes by stating that the purpose of brochs may have been a combination of defensive, offensive, and symbolic functions.

Brochs' close groupings and profusion in many areas may indeed suggest that they had a primarily defensive or even offensive function. Some of them were sited beside precipitous cliffs and were protected by large ramparts, artificial or natural: a good example is at Burland near Gulberwick in Shetland, on a clifftop and cut off from the mainland by huge ditches. Often they are at key strategic points. In Shetland they sometimes cluster on each side of narrow stretches of water: the Broch of Mousa, for instance, is directly opposite another at Burraland in Sandwick. In Orkney there are more than a dozen on the facing shores of Eynhallow Sound, and many at the exits and entrances of the great harbour of Scapa Flow. In Sutherland quite a few are placed along the sides and at the mouths of deep valleys. Writing in 1956 John Stewart suggested that brochs in Shetland were forts put up by a military society to scan and protect the countryside and seas.[11]

Finally, some archaeologists consider broch sites individually, doubting that there ever was a single common purpose for which every broch was constructed. There are differences in the positions, dimensions and likely status of broch in the various areas in which brochs are found. For example, the broch "villages" which occur at a few places in Orkney have no parallel in the Western Isles.

what mysterious structures... they must have been so labor-intensive to build! theyre dry-stack! no mortar

[maximumwobblerbanditdonut]

The Up Helly Aa fire festivals are amongst the biggest annual celebrations in Shetland and take place every year between January and March.

They mark the end of winter and are inspired by Shetland's Viking past, with communities across the islands coming together for a night of guising, where traditional Shetland music is played and torches and a Viking longship are burned.

Shetland was once a Viking stronghold and the imprint they left still exists today. This is particularly the case in Unst, where there is the greatest concentration of evidence of the Viking's presence and subsequent Norse occupation. An archaeological project there, Viking Unst, has excavated three Viking longhouses and another, at Sandwick, was explored towards the end of the last century. There are more than 60 such sites on Unst.

Throughout Shetland the names of places, geographical features, birds and parts of boats have Scandinavian roots, as do many personal names. The Shetland dialect is also infused with words that have their origins in Old Norse.

@simply.scotland

@promoteshetland

📍: Up Helly Aa in Norwick

#shetland #viking #scotland #history #fire #festival #norwick

[royalhouseofcarrington]

I'm having my first Girl Scout cookies of the season so I'm gonna do this for shits and giggles-

The Favorite Girl Scout Cookies of some of my OCs and if they would be a good Cookie Mom/Dad/Parent:

Ana: Girl goes gaga for Tagalongs/Peanut Butter Patties. She is a major supporter of the local girl scout troops to the point that they just let her know when cookie season starts and ship boxes to her direct from the bakery. Top Tier Cookie Mom. 10/10

Douxie: Thin Mints. Hoards them through non-cookie season. Excellent Cookie Dad. Very hesitant to let go of Thin Mints. 9/10

Elissa: The lemon frosted ones? Idr what they're called. (Lemonades) Very begrudging cookie mom. Wants all these goddamn cookies out of her house. 5/10

Ben: Samoas/Carmel deLites. He and his future husband go bananas for them. Their daughters' and nieces' cookie sales explode. Would be a great Cookie Dad if it weren't for the fact that he keeps sneaking cookies out of the boxes. 8.5/10

Michael: Trefoils and Peanut Butter Sandwick/Do-Si-Dos. Not really big on any of the other flavors cause there's too much going on. The second that Emilia joins the Girl Scouts he is the #1 supporter. Would absolutely be a Cookie Dad and volunteer immediately. 6/10

Thalia: I'm getting S'mores vibes from her ngl. Would volunteer to be Cookie Mom if no one else could, but is mostly persuading Michael not to volunteer immediately. 7/10

Sophie: I haven't tried Adventurefuls yet, but they look really good. Turns and runs the opposite direction when someone asks her to be Cookie Mom. 6/10

Eric: He just has whatever Sophie has. One box given just to him lasts maybe 2 months. (Which is a long time for Girl Scout cookies). Not very interested in being a Cookie Dad. 4/10

Charles: What the fuck are Girl Scout cookies. Will still buy cookies to support his nieces but is very confused about the whole thing. Definitely not a Cookie Dad. 2/10

Robert: Every flavor. This man goes bananas for them. He absolutely has a freezer dedicated just to Girl Scout Cookies so he can have them in the off-season. He volunteers to be Cookie Dad every year and no one stops him. 100/10

Ben: Samoas/Carmel deLites. He and his future husband go bananas for them. Their daughters' and nieces' cookie sales explode. Would be a great Cookie Dad if it weren't for the fact that he keeps sneaking cookies out of the boxes. 8.5/10

Alice: Peanut Butter Patties/Tagalongs. She tries and resists so hard, but when it's the little Daisies or Brownies she can't say no. She can't. She melts. Is just like her big sister though and will bolt out of a room if someone asks her to be Cookie Mom. 7.5/10

[shylightqueen]

Yesnaby is a historic township in Sandwick, on the west coast of Orkney Mainland, Scotland, south of Skara Brae. It is renowned for its spectacular Old Red Sandstone coastal cliff scenery which includes sea stacks, blowholes, geos and frequently boiling seas.

[insomniac-morpheus]

 Waves crashing against the craggy cliffs of Yesnaby - Sandwick - Orkney

[paulbeal]

🌄 Place Fell Walk: Lake District Summit Views and Lakeside Paths

🚶‍♂️ A couple of days ago, I shared a post about my 12-mile Ullswater walk in the Lake District. This fantastic route begins in Patterdale, ascends to Beda Fell offering stunning views, and returns along the Ullswater Way. You can read about the walk here:

👟 If you're interested but prefer a shorter distance, I recommend another similar walk of about 8.5 miles. It starts from Patterdale, climbs to Place Fell with its breathtaking views, descends to Sandwick, and then joins the Ullswater Way, just like the longer route. All the usual details including maps, tools, statistics, and parking information can be found on my website. Here is the link to read about this shorter walk:

[aimeedaisies]

Court Circular | 29th August 2024

St James’s Palace

The Princess Royal this morning opened Carloway Community Association Community Centre at Knock, Carloway, Isle of Lewis, and was received by His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of the Western Isles (Mr Iain Macaulay).

Her Royal Highness this afternoon visited Ishga Organic Seaweed Skincare Company, Gleann Seileach Business Park, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis.

The Princess Royal later opened Point and Sandwick Trust Community Hub at Old Knock School, Stornoway.

Her Royal Highness afterwards visited Bethesda Care Home and Hospice, Springfield Road, Stornoway.

[robcawston-photography]

A moody early evening from the shore of Ullwater looking towards Sandwick, Hamlin Fell and High Dodd.

#Cloud #cloud_and_sky #Sky #Tranquility #TranquilScene #Reflection #Nature #Outdoors #ScenicsNature #BodyOfWater #long_exposure_photography #photo #photoofday #image #imageoftheday #photographer #canonr6

[greasy-old-skillet]

 Waves crashing against the craggy cliffs of Yesnaby - Sandwick - Orkney

[hugomontilla]

 Sandwick - Shetland Islands