12

1768

A very good harvest day

( begun to the otts of How

screwed most of the bear of Inglea )

A severe Rain in the Evening so as to quit shearing

NNW

2018

 fine day with occasional showers & less wind

WSW

Sund 11

1768

A fine dry day

( Westove came from Stronsay )

2018

Rain then very windy & bright

W

WSW

10

1768

A fine day

( began to the Otts of the Tumal of Gorn

cut 12 riggs thereof  )

NE

Showers all day with wind and sun

W

WSW

9

1768

A fine day all day

( had all the Women of the ground sheering otts

in Curabister they cut that dayne )

2018

 bright sunrise showers and cloud during day then

bright evening with little wind

S

veering 

SW

8

1768

Rain in the morning

( my men shearing all day in Inglea 

the bear thereof )

NW

grey & overcast with Haa coming and going

WNW

7

1768

A very good day

( my men Cut only sd day the little Sands Clettigoe

& about 10 threefs more )

NW

2018

early rain then low cloud and calm all day

NNW

veering

ENE

6

1768

A little less wind

( Thos Swanney pletting bent all day for the 

House use & he did 20 threefs )

2018

Fine morning then cloudier & rain late afternoon

N

veering 

NE

5

1768

A brisk gale of wind

( done wt the half d Lands & went to

the Longlands of Halksness )

ESE

2018

Dry & cloudy in morning

brighter with strong wind by afternoon

rain in the evening

S

Sund 4

1768 

A fine dry day all day

S

2018

a fine dry day all day

S

3

1768

a fine forenoon screwed all How rain midday

( in the evening shearing Gornside )

NWN

2018

clear and bright clouds high coming and going

very still

W

by evening veering 

N

2

1768

A fine day all day

( Cut a pt of the stony sheed of Gorn )

ENE

2018

bright & windy blue sky & sunshine all day

S 

calmer by evening & veering 

W

SEPTEMBER Thursy 1

1768

Rain in the Morning

( got my big boat drawn )

NE

2018

Low cloud all day. 

S 

veering

 W

Gardemeles Climate Change Report / INTRODUCTION ( Part 1 )

Throughout September there will be a Gardemeles Climate Change Report based on the Diary of Patrick Fea of Stove and his weather observations from 250 years ago. 1768 was also the year that James Cook departed to circumnavigate the world. Around this time, visiting cards were introduced, potatoes became the most popular foodstuff in Europe,Mozart's first opera was performed and the Industrial revolution was dawning.

Patrick Fea, farmer at Stove, was married to Babie, who he describes as one of the best of women. They had 5 daughters; Elizabeth, Helena, Ann, Jacobina & Marion. They were a grand and hospitable family, fond of feasting and revelry.

Professor Sandy Fenton, the head of European Ethnological Research Centre in Edinburgh, who  oversaw the publication of Patrick Fea's diaries says...

Of all the diaries I have seen, and I've looked at dozens from all parts of Europe, 

Patrick Fea's is absolutely outstanding. It's special because it's one of the earliest 

diaries we have from Europe and because it gives such a detailed picture of life 

in a remote island long before agricultural improvements came to Orkney. You can 

look at estate counts and factor's ledgers, but you don't get the feeling of what life 

was really like from cold documents- 

yet Fea's diary gives you that sense of reality very clearly.

( Scotsman 1987 )

Lion's Mane Jellyfish

incoming

Flapping Summer Dresses

Last Late Fig

To Blue.

To blue.

To tear from the midpoint.

to lay bear crystals.

To lay bare a sky.

To ash.

To put silence over it.

To not desist.

To inmost.

To mount smoke ( of a soul ).

( Anne Carson )

Echo's Bones

asylum under my tread all this day

their muffled revels as the flesh falls

breaking without fear or favour wind

the gantelope of sense and nonsense run

taken by maggots for what they are

( Samuel Beckett )

unfinished drawing / B.

The Floor is Fading

Float

found by Kes at the Lotheran

close to Holms of Ire shipwreck. 

Rain at Last

Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms

into the tracery of the finger of god.

( HW Turnbull )

Midsummer Evening

Under the Parasol

Lighthouse Keeper's Button

In Salutem Omnium

For the Safety of All

Northern Lighthouses

Skull & Saxifrage Shadow

Relocating the Bones

A Magnetic Pastime / King of Coasters

A Magnetic Pastime

Coloured Squares Puzzle

product by Stratabord Wetherby  England

HI-JACS king of coasters

( Found at Sanday Recycling Centre )

Sulpha Drawings

Will you Put a Muzzle on his Nose ?

Will you play with him like a Bird

And will you bind him with a string for your daughters ?

( Dead Sea Scrolls )

Swim Swan Swim